tdebase (4:3.4.2-3) unstable; urgency=low *** Changes to TDM conffiles: * Users upgrading TDM from 3.3.x, will find that TDM no longer uses the /etc/trinity/tdm/Xservers file, if /etc/trinity/tdm/tdmrc was updated to the version shipped with TDM 3.4.x. The package upgrade scripts will not remove Xservers even if tdmrc has been upgraded, if they detect local modifications. This should allow administrators to merge their Xservers changes into tdmrc before themselves removing Xservers. The new ServerArgsLocal key in tdmrc is where most old Xservers customizations should be placed. * Irrespective of the removal of the Xservers file, we highly recommend that all administrators accept the installation of the updated tdmrc file during the package upgrade. Many important changes to TDM's defaults have been made, and TDM is exceedingly bad at handling anything but the latest tdmrc format, so the nuissance of re-customizing TDM will likely prove less than the nuissance of dealing with a TDM that isn't working properly. If you have already upgraded TDM package without accepting the new tdmrc, purging and reinstalling the package should achieve the desired result. *** Changes to user login script handling: * Another important change that users upgrading from TDM 3.3.x may notice is that TDM's ability to source personal login scripts, long disabled, has been restored. The exact files sourced on login will depend on the user's choice of shell. For users of bash, TDM will source /etc/profile, followed by ~/.bash_profile or, if that is not present, ~/.profile. Note that TDM is NOT spawning a login shell, but is merely mimicking the behaviour that popular shells would exhibit if they were login shells, by manually sourcing the customary login scripts. /etc/trinity/tdm/Xsession controls this behaviour. * The important downside of the above approach is that TDM will utterly fail to start a user's session if the newly sourced files contain certain types of commands. For instance, many commands will cause the login attempt to fail because they expect an interactive shell, or because you are trying to "exec" something that cannot provide an X session. For instance, "exec ksmserver" will launch KDE, but "exec bash" will fail. Thus if you are unsure why TDM is refusing to start your session, try commenting out elements of the newly sourced login scripts, and you may find the problem resolved. -- Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers Thu, 8 Sep 2005 11:13:41 -0400 tdebase (4:3.3.2-1) unstable; urgency=low * Users upgrading from KDE 3.2 might find that their keyboards seem no longer to work in TDM. This problem is caused by a change in KDE's handling of virtual terminals. The setting which puts TDM on vt7, which was contained in /etc/trinity/tdm/Xservers, has changed, and is also now located in /etc/trinity/tdm/tdmrc. * Users who, when upgrading to KDE 3.3, opted to replace their Xservers file with the version shipped by the package, but chose to retain their /etc/trinity/tdm/tdmrc file, will thus have a TDM configuration which nowhere contains a setting which properly places TDM on vt7. This can result in a race condition which has the end effect of breaking the keyboard when using TDM. * The solution to the problem is either to replace both of Xservers and tdmrc, or neither, when upgrading to KDE 3.3 for the first time. * Users already stuck can, after killing KDE, purge and re-install the tdm package, ensuring that the latest, fresh copies are installed. Alternatively, they can edit /etc/trinity/tdm/tdmrc and add the following line: ServerVTs=-7 in the [General] section of the file. -- Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:11:07 +0100