[Mageia-dev] GDM Configuration

Tue Oct 30 10:15:10 CET 2012

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+I'm guessing the documentation is outdated.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).
+
+-- 
+Regards,
+Olav
+