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(If you have no clue what gdm is, skip a few paragraphs down first) I have uncovered the evil incarnate that hides in the deepest parts of the GDM code. Yes. The evil so horrible, we may have to go to war with some country (to be picked by a reality tv show). An evil so disgusting, so vile, that it is worse then Stalin, Saddam, Ivan the Terrible and Britney Spears combined. Yes, I am talking about the antichrist, the anti-<insert your favourite prophet name>, the cause of all that is bad (such as industrial pollution and cheese that was left on the sone just a bit too long). I am talking about blinking cursors on the login screen. Seriously what happens that they make the login screen wake up, talk to X about 3 times a second. This is not so bad on a local display especially if you only have one. But if your machine has say 20 remote terminals, then even when idle, they wake up and do some work 3 times a second and to boot they talk to their X server at least 3 times a second. So now on any display that is not :0, we disable cursor blinking after 20 seconds of inactivity. Yes that's it. All that buildup about something that doesn't sound all that important. Actually more importantly, I should brag that I passed all my qualification exams with a `phd pass' grade which is the best grade I can get. This is despite getting only 62% on the topology one, but apparently I was 3rd in class with that score. At this point you should not that my ego is properly inflated and we can go on with the rest of the announcement. Other things new in this release is just a bunch of minor bug fixes and no new features. There's not a devel branch yet because I haven't gotten around to making one. Markmc and friends are apparently working on VNC support so that you won't need all the XDMCP crack, which sounds very cool and is likely to land sometime before or after guadec or whenever it gets sorted out. Also it can be secure and encrypted and all that good stuff. 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 2.6.0.3: - Fix cpu/bandwidth eating on idle displays by not blinking the cursor after 20 seconds of inactivity on anything other then :0, fixes #135764 - In the face greeter cut after a comma in the gecos field if there are at least two commas since then it's probably some login arguments and not the name of the user, "fixes" #142274 - Apply patch to make the language dialog at most 600 pixels so that it doesn't look too crappy on large displays, #142175 (Leonard Michlmayr) - Fix last_x_failed possible infinite loop on slow machines, #141497 - Fix multihead wanker code in the *mouselistener modules, this confused the moronic bonobo DISPLAY logic - Don't use certain languages on the console. Controlled by the daemon/ConsoleCannotHandle config key, but that's a hack. Oh well, better then displaying garbage in cjk and similar. "fixes" #135387 - Ensure proper ~/.ICEauthority permissions to fix broken cases such as gnome-session vs. suid root apps that create root owned ~/.ICEauthority, "fixes" #137345 - We no longer use `which' command which is horribly broken on some horribly broken systems and use a private shell version, #133245 (Brian Cameron, me) - Solaris fixes, #137600 (build), #133245 (chown arguments) (Brian Cameron, Ivan Noris) - Support system-config-display as X setup for FC2 - Further shell quoting paranoia in gdmsetup - Many minor fixes - Add some new new icons (James M. Cape) - Translation updates (Francisco Javier F. Serrador, Alexander Shopov, Rostislav Raykov, Dinesh Nadarajah, Asmund Skjaeveland) 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. #ifndef GDM_DISABLE_DEPRECATED Note3: Note3 has been depracated ... #endif /* GDM_DISABLE_DEPRECATED */ Downloading: ============ Webpage: http://www.jirka.org/gdm.html http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.6/ ftp://ftp.5z.com/pub/gdm/ No RPM this time around BTW. Have fun. A spec file is included though, so you can try: rpmbuild -ta gdm-whatever.tar.gz Have fun (or whatever else you wish to be having), George PS: I think the beginning of this announcement was quite silly enough don't you think? Yes. No need for more silliness. But for those of you more mathematically inclined I have some very funny (or sad depends on how you look at it) silliness. See: http://planetmath.org/?op=getmsg&id=4274 This is the guy who proved the most important theorem since Newton (at least he says so, apparently he can "prove" the fundemental theorem of calculus without using the completeness property of the real numbers, fascinating stuff ... I mean nonsense), here arguing (you should read the whole thread), ... actually I have no clue what he's arguing. He's a prime example of the reason why there should be a license issued before you can get on the internet. -- George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ja se vratim, a se mnou prijde zakon. -- Limonadovy Joe _______________________________________________ gnome-announce-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-announce-list
