[Mageia-dev] GDM Configuration

Mon Oct 29 18:43:26 CET 2012

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.
+
+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.
+
+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 ?
+