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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] GDM Configuration</H1>
    <B>Olav Vitters</B> 
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<PRE>On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 01:43:26PM -0400, Frank Griffin wrote:
&gt;<i> I was looking around to figure out how to enable XDMCP support in
</I>&gt;<i> GDM, and noticed something strange.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> In the GNOME site GDM3 documentation, they give several options for
</I>&gt;<i> GDM configuration none of which seem to exist in cauldron.
</I>
I'm guessing the documentation is outdated.

&gt;<i> An example is given of using gconf-edit to access apps/gdm, but no
</I>&gt;<i> such key exists.  Mention is made of using a &quot;gdm3setup&quot; executable
</I>&gt;<i> that we don't seem to have.
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GDM has been migrated to gsettings (in practice: dconf).

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