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[Brian Murray <brian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello iGEL, or anyone else affected,

Accepted lightdm into utopic-proposed. The package will build now and be
available at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/1.12.3-0ubuntu1.1 in a few
hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this update
out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag
from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the
bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to
verification-failed.  In either case, details of your testing will help
us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu Trusty)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1244578

Title:
  lightdm-session runs xrdb with -nocpp option

Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in lightdm source package in Precise:
  Fix Committed
Status in lightdm source package in Trusty:
  Fix Committed
Status in lightdm source package in Utopic:
  Fix Committed
Status in lightdm source package in Vivid:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  lightdm-session runs xrdb for .Xresources file with the -nocpp option
  (Line 37 and 43), which prevents the xrdb from preprocessing the
  .Xresources file. Many configurations like the popular solarized color
  theme (https://github.com/solarized/xresources/blob/master/solarized)
  use this and you find some complaints about in on the internet

  https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=164108
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1163129
  http://superuser.com/questions/655857/urxvt-uses-pink-instead-of-solarized-until-i-run-xrdb-xresources/656213

  I don't see a reason for not using the preprocessor and so did the
  editor of Xsession (the option is not used in
  /etc/X11/Xsession.d/30x11-common_xresources)

  [Test Case]

   - Install solarized theme
  https://github.com/solarized/xresources/blob/master/solarized

  - Load default Xresources file (xrdb < .XDefaults )

  - Now every macro supported by CPP will not work.

  
  [Regression Potential] 

  * No regression potential advised, small (0.001%) load average increase
  on startup time because of enabling Cpp.

  [Solution]

  Backport default wily session to older releases.

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