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Current solution: The athena-bugme package displays the timer and the nagging warnings for quickstations. The Xsession script in the athena-dotfiles package invokes bugme.
Planned solution: No change, except that the Xsession script should move to debathena-gdm-config. Instead of being invoked from athena-dotfiles, the debathena-bugme package will include an xsession script which wraps the session with the bugme program. The bugme program will need to be tested for interference with gnome-session; there is already a bug report filed against it for interference with the screensaver in bugs 27097.
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