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(If you have no clue what gdm is, skip a few paragraphs down first)
Sorry this release is a week late. George Lebl is no longer maintaing GDM and it took me a bit of time to get the release together. Kudos to George for all the excellent work he has done for the gdm project.
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 2.6.0.7:
- Now using CVS head of vicious-extensions, left out of previous release due to schedule freeze.
- Do not init the wm twice if gdm_wm_init is called twice. (George)
- Always destroy dialog widget in greeter to fix non-fatal error dialogs from hanging around. (George)
- Leak corrected in daemon/verify-pam.c. (George)
- Corrected g_strconcat call in gui/gdmsetup.c. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
- Added Afrikaans, Northern Sotho, South African English, and Zulu. to language translations. (Dwayne Baily)
- Updated build files so it can be built and distributed with new buildtools than 1.4. makedist fixes, etc. (Brian Cameron)
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://yippi.hypermall.com/gdm http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.6/
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),
Brian
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