Jason White wrote:
read ~/.xsession-errors and consider all of the messages from components one didn't even know existed. One is then faced with the practical question: against which package to submit a bug report.
Um, you make an educated guess, and if you filed it against the wrong package, it's the Debian maintainer's responsibility to reassign it.
At some point the level of complexity really will have to be reduced to make everything easier to administer and easier to debug.
Har har. That's like saying entropy will go down.
I think those who run simple window managers rather than "desktop environments" are well justified in doing so. For accessibility reasons, this isn't an option for me; it's best to run the accessibility infrastructure, when I do need an X environment, in GNOME (for which it was written).
Pity you can't just do everything in emacspeak :-/ Not that it's flawless, either.