XFCE 4.8.0 logs out instead of shutting down

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

(this is becoming off-topic here)

On lun., 2011-08-22 at 18:57 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
> However, on all of the older installations (Debian testing installed 
> with xdm as the default DM) aptitude wanted to remove task-xfce-desktop 
> when I removed xdm. I let it do so -- since it didn't want to actually 
> remove any of the Xfce components, but I'd be a little happier if 
> aptitude's audit/recommendations dialog wasn't suggesting that I install 
> task-gnome-desktop, task-kde-desktop, task-lxde-desktop, or 
> task-xfce-desktop. It's not that this is a problem, per se, but I'm 
> concerned that the package manager might do something screwy later on 
> with respect to the metapackage and its "dependencies". As it is, 
> aptitude still won't let me install task-xfce-desktop without pulling 
> xdm into the mix.

Afaict you can safely remove the task-xfce-desktop. It's just a
metapackage to install what the installer install for the Xfce task. I
(as a Debian/Xfce maintainer) barely touch that, I mostly use
xfce4/xfce4-goodies dependencies.
> 
> I think it's odd that the Debian testing package managers went with xdm 
> as the default DM for Xfce when lightdm works so beautifully (and when 
> xdm works so badly).

They added it when gdm2 was dropped and lightdm not yet uploaded. I've
just changed that in tasksel, but it'll have to wait until the package
is uploaded and migrate to testing.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis