[Bug 256648] x11/sddm enhance xinit-session for 'User Session' to work in the absence of ~/.xinitrc

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--- Comment #6 from Graham Perrin <grahamperrin at gmail.com> ---
+1 to a plainly worded package message. 

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More than that, I would like 'User Session' (the phrase presented by SDDM) to
be foolproof – if possible. 

Foolproof enough to work immediately for a new user – the product of
adduser(8). 

A User Session that's so reliable – without an absolute _requirement_ for
~/.xinitrc – will be very useful as a step in basic troubleshooting. In cases
where, for example, a person claims that updating or upgrading something has
"broken X" or whatever. 

Ask the user to choose User Session at the SDDM login screen. Then if the
result is a basic window (i.e. twm) it'll be enough for the person to
understand that things are not entirely broken, next steps in troubleshooting
can be more user-friendly, and so on. 

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(Whilst cases of misunderstood 'breakage' are rare, it's not uncommon for other
readers to 'jump on the bandwagon' and reach a wrong conclusion …)

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