On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 22:42, Praveen Kallakuri wrote: > anyone been using gdm 2 and gnome 2? > i recently upgraded my gnome packages to 2.2 and everything else using > apt-get. installation was a breeze and i got real neat icons and > desktop. however when i used gdmconfig to change the greeter from > standard to graphical, everything froze. basically the gdm login sreen > freezes into grey and nothing appears. i just have to kill gdm. > there is a tip on gnome2.2 page about the splash screen freezing. but > i think thats not my problem since the standard greeter works ok. can > someone tell me what i am doing wrong? or is it buggy!
I've been happily using the gdm package that Sean Harshbarger put together: > In debian-gtk-gnome, Sean Harshbarger said: > > Just made the final gnome 2.2 upstream version of my ever so famous > gdm package. Now we are at 2.4.1.3 proper. NOw can we get a vote to > get it uploaded to mainstream ;-). Also don't forget to test out > gdm-themes off the server as well. deb http://harshy.homelinux.org/files/debian/ ./ It appears that Ryan Murray (the gdm maintainer) objects to uploading the latest version of gdm into unstable because some parts of Gnome won't build on some architectures. Also, a PowerPC package is at: deb http://home.wtal.de/petig/debian ./ Regards, Andrew. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew @ Catalyst .Net.NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington WEB: http://catalyst.net.nz/ PHYS: Level 2, 150-154 Willis St DDI: +64(4)916-7201 MOB: +64(21)635-694 OFFICE: +64(4)499-2267 Survey for nothing with http://survey.net.nz/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
