[Mageia-dev] GDM Configuration

[Olav Vitters]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 01:43:26PM -0400, Frank Griffin wrote:
> I was looking around to figure out how to enable XDMCP support in
> GDM, and noticed something strange.
> 
> In the GNOME site GDM3 documentation, they give several options for
> GDM configuration none of which seem to exist in cauldron.

I'm guessing the documentation is outdated.

> An example is given of using gconf-edit to access apps/gdm, but no
> such key exists.  Mention is made of using a "gdm3setup" executable
> that we don't seem to have.

GDM has been migrated to gsettings (in practice: dconf).

> Mention is made of "gdm" directories in various locations under
> /usr/share and /etc which we don't seem to have, and of enabling
> XDMCP by setting "Enable=true" in a file called daemon.conf, but the
> only daemon.conf we have is in /etc/pulse.
> 
> I did find /usr/share/X11/dm.d/20gdm.conf and
> /etc/dbus-1/system.d/gdm.conf, but neither of these seem to have
> anything to do with XDMCP.
> 
> I did find a barebones /etc/X11/gdm/custom.conf which had an empty
> [Xdmcp] section, but adding Enable=true here had no effect on
> getting the GDM main dropdown to show a Remote Login option.  It
> did, however, get the GDM server to export the host as eligible for
> XDMCP, and accept a logon.  However, the GDM screen it puts up has
> no option to close the connection, or anything else indicating that
> it is a remote login.
> 
> What do we do in MGA to enable GDM as an XDMCP client, or configure
> it in general ?

No clue at all. Suggest asking upstream. XDMCP was recently discussed in
relation to fallback mode, but other than that I don't know much
(assumed it was working).

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Regards,
Olav