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Subject: GDM2 2.19.0 (unstable), the "Xian" Release
From: Brian Cameron <Brian.Cameron () Sun ! COM>
Date: 2007-04-23 10:55:52
Message-ID: 462C90B8.20108 () sun ! com
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If you have no clue what GDM is, refer to the documentation links
at the bottom of this announcement.
There has been a lot of work in GDM in the 2.19 unstable branch, and
though we've made a real effort to make sure this version of GDM works
reasonably, I'm sure there are many issues that have been introduced
into the code. The GDM development team would greatly appreciate
hearing about any issues or bugs that you find. Link to bug tracking
tool for GDM at the bottom of this announcement.
The 2.19.0 release is an unstable release of the GNOME Display Manager
(GDM) program with the following bug fixes and improvements:
Interface Changes:
- Now the GDM PidFile is now specified as /var/run/gdm.pid and the
GDM configuration key PidFile has been deprecated. The location
of the PidFile can be configured with the configure --with-pid-file
option. (Brian Cameron, William Jon McCann)
- The GDM AlwaysRestartServer configuration option is deprecated and
GDM will now always restart the Xserver between users. This makes
GDM work more reliably since reusing the Xserver can expose memory
leaks and instabilities in the Xserver code. (Brian Cameron,
William Jon McCann)
- Now the GDM LogDir is set to /var/log/gdm rather than /var/lib/log/gdm
by default. Users can configure this with the configure
--with-log-file option. (Brian Cameron)
- Remove logic to call whack_clients when closing the session. This
code was written to address bug #126071, to ensure that all clients
are killed on session exit. However, this approach does not work
well and causes GDM to fail badly when you kill the Xserver via
control-al-backspace on some environments. If there is still a need
to kill clients on session exit, a better approach will need to be
designed. (Cesare Tirabassi)
- Now GDM supports Xephyr as the Nested Xserver command. GDM will use
Xephyr by default if it is on the system, and fallback to Xnest.
Xephyr works much better than Xnest. (Brian Cameron)
- Now gdmgreeter will not display the Face Browser is the GDM
configuration option Browser is false. Now gdmsetup supports a
"Themed with face browser" option to support selecting this.
- Comment in GDM System Defaults configuration file now shows "true"
for ConfigAvailable since this value has been defaulting to true for
some time and the comment in the System Defaults configuration file
was incorrect.
- Now gdmphotosetup.desktop specifies NotShowIn=GNOME since the About-Me
capplet is a better place for configuring the user's face image in
GNOME.
New interfaces:
- Add min-screen-height tag to gdmgreeter parser logic so that certain
elements in the theme will only display if the screen is large
enough. (Ray Strode).
- New configuration option SystemCommandsInMenu to configure which
system commands (reboot, shutdown, suspend, etc.) appear in the GDM
greeter system menu. New configuration option AllowLogoutActions
to specify which system commands are supported by the
QUERY_LOGOUT_ACTION, SET_LOGOUT_ACTION, and SET_SAFE_LOGOUT action
gdmflexiserver commands. This allows GDM to be configured to support
shutdown, reboot, suspend from the user session, but no from the login
screen directly, if desired. In situations where you want the user to
authenticate before being able to shutdown or reboot the machine, this
feature would be useful.
- GDM Now supports RBAC (Role Based Access Control) for specifying
which actions (reboot, shutdown, suspend, etc.) are supported on a
per-user basis. This feature is only available if GDM is compiled
with RBAC support enabled. The new configuration option
RBACSystemCommandKeys allows an RBAC key to be specified for each
system command. Only users who have RBAC authority will be able to
query or set the logout action. The GDM GUI will only display actions
for which the "gdm" user has RBAC authority. GDM will assume that all
users have authority for actions which do not have an RBAC key
associated with them.
- Now support XnestUnscaledFontPath configuration option, which allows
GDM to work with Xnest. Xorg 7.2 XGetFontPath function now returns
fontpath with the ":unscaled" prefix, which Xsun Xnest cannot handle.
Setting XnestUnscaledFontPath=false, will strip the ":unscaled" prefix
from the fontpath so that it can work. (Brian Cameron)
New features, improvements, and bug fixes:
- GDM had a bug that would happen after the user asked to run the
"Configure GDM" menu choice. If the user typed the wrong password,
it would ask up to 3 times. If the user typed the correct password
on the 2nd or 3rd try, it would start a root user session rather
than running gdmsetup. This problem would only happen if using PAM
for authenticating passwords. Now GDM only asks for the root
passwords once, and only runs gdmsetup if the password is correct.
This bug was introduced into GDM 2.18.0 when Ludwig Nussel made some
improvements to make the PAM logic more generic (Brian Cameron)
- Much cleanup work in the GDM code, which now makes more use of
GObjects (e.g. XDMCP code). Configuration logic rewritten to no
longer use vicious-extensions and now uses GKeyFile. (William Jon
McCann)
- Now when a user changes the language choice in GDM, it will ask if
the user wants to restart the GDM GUI in the selected language.
(Takao Fujiwara, Brian Cameron)
- Many improvements supporting languages. Now all LC_* settings are
normalized to LANG, and input methods (IIIM->XIM) are started.
(Hidetoshi Tajima, Chookij Vanatham)
- Fix check in gdmgreeter so that the language combo style selection
works. (Simon)
- Add ATK label for the entry field in gdmgreeter for better
accessibility support. (David Zeuthen)
- In gdmsetup, only show tar and compressed tar files in the file
chooser for selecting gdmgreeter themes to install. (Kristof Vansant)
- Now the "Configure GDM" option is not displayed when accessibility is
enabled in GDM. This is because gdmsetup currently hangs when the
user tries to run gdmsetup from the greeter program. Not really a
fix, but prevents the user from getting into a situation that causes
a system hang. (Brian Cameron)
- Now Face Browser displays non-utf8 characters as '?' rather than
crashing when trying to display such characters. (Ray Strode)
- Improve GDM messages, correcting spelling and grammar mistakes
(Brian Cameron)
- Fix detection of user specified in flexi command. (William Jon
McCann)
- gdmflexiserver now properly initializes GTK+. (William Jon McCann)
- Call "xrdb -merge /etc/X11/Xresources" in the Init script so that the
GDM GUI is properly configured with Xft rsources. Fixes bug #301826.
(Ray Strode)
- Now desktop categories for all GDM related desktop files should be
correct. (Brian Cameron)
- Fix gdm startup script so it works with Solaris /bin/sh. (Brian
Cameron)
- Fix a strcpy call in gui/gdmlanguages.c so source and destination do
not overlap. (Ray Strode)
- Remove gnome glade references since GNOME does not use libglade
anymore. (Kristof Vansant)
- Many improvements to GDM docs. (Brian Cameron, William Jon McCann)
- Translation updates (Djihed Afifi, Takeshi AIHANA, Leonardo
Ferreira Fontenelle, Jakub Friedl, Pema Geyleg, Priit Laes, Duarte
Loreto, Kjartan Maraas, Daniel Nylander, Kostas Papadimas, Ignacio
Casal Quinteiro, Hendrik Richter, Funda Wang)
Note: GDM2 was originally written by Martin K. Petersen <mkp@mkp.net>.
Much work has been done on GDM2 by George Lebl; and Brian Cameron
now currently shares maintainership duties with the Queen of England.
Note2: If installing from the tarball do note that make install
overwrites most of the setup files, all except gdm.conf. It will
however save backups with the .orig extension first.
#ifndef GDM_DISABLE_DEPRECATED
Note3: Note3 has been depracated ...
#endif /* GDM_DISABLE_DEPRECATED */
Downloading:
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Online Documentation - http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/
Latest Stable - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.18/
Latest Unstable - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.19/
Bug Reporting - http://bugzilla.gnome.org in the "gdm" category.
Have fun,
Brian
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