EKITYEKITYPOO (If you have no clue what gdm is, skip a few paragraphs down first)
It appears that some bonehead mistakes made it into the stable tree recently and it also appears that some bonehead mistakes were there for some time already. I know I promissed no more 2.4.4.x releases since 2.4.4.5 was perfect enough, but oh well. Apparently it was even more crap then some of the earlier releases. So here's a fixer release. This doesn't have any coolness of recent CVS versions. I'll make a devel release at some point, so that you too can be the first kid on your block to run with these new features that no one really needs/wants. And now for the standard part of the release announcement: GDM is the GNOME Display Manager, it is the little proggie that runs in the background, runs your X sessions, presents you with a login box and then tells you to piss off because you forgot your password. It does pretty much everything that you would want to use xdm for, but doesn't involve as much crack. It doesn't use any code from xdm, and has a more paranoid and safer design overall. It also includes many features over xdm, the biggest one of which is that it is more user friendly, even if your X setup is failing. The goal is that users should never, ever have to use the command line to customize or troubleshoot gdm. It of course supports xdmcp, and in fact extends xdmcp a little bit in places where I thought xdm was lacking (but is still compatible with xdm's xdmcp). News: ===== Highlights of 2.4.4.6: - Fixes xdmcp session counting (fixes #126465) - The programs that want to talk to gdm check ownership of /tmp/.gdm_socket for added paranoia - Fix assert failure when starting Xnest (fixes #127780) - Time for the fail delay is in microseconds (Leena Gunda, fixes #128507) - Translation updates (Maxim Dziumanenko, Dmitry G. Mastrukov, Russian team, Andras Timar, Sanlig Badral, Paul Duffy, David O'Callaghan, Jordi Mallach, Jordi Mas, Guntupalli Karunakar, Andras Timar) Note: GDM2 was originally written by Martin K. Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, and has for a while now been maintained by the Queen of England. She is usually not responsive to bug reports or feature requests. You can try to send them to me however. 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. Note3: Note3 has been depracated ... Downloading: ============ Webpage: http://www.jirka.org/gdm.html http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.4/ ftp://ftp.5z.com/pub/gdm/ Sorry no RPMS. There is a spec file included in the tarball and it should work. So generate an rpm with rpmbuild -ta gdm-whatever.tar.gz Have fun (or whatever else you wish to be having), George PS: Those damn canadians sending us mad cows. I say: Blame Canada! -- George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Let's not bicker and argue about who killed who. -- Monty Python _______________________________________________ gnome-announce-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-announce-list
