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(If you have no clue what gdm is, skip a few paragraphs down first) The 2.13.0.0 release of GDM2 is the first release of the 2.13 series. It has some new features and UI improvements, see below. The last GDM release was 2.8.0.5 and the version number is being bumped to 2.13 to match the GNOME release schedule. Changes 2.13.0.0 stuff: - Fix problem with PostSession script not always being executed when user kills the Xserver with ctrl-alt-backspace. Fixes bug #152906. (Jerry G. DeLapp) - No longer set tooltips for menu items in gdmlogin. These do not work with accessibility and no GNOME programs use menu tooltips, it is not recommended. (Brian Cameron) - Change the way the "OK" and "Cancel" buttons work so they are consistant. Now the "Cancel" button in gdmlogin is active when the Username is requested and just clears the field. This makes gdmlogin work like gdmgreeter. Now make the buttons insensitive when the ok/enter/tab is pressed and make them sensitive again when the greeter wants entry. This fixes a bug where the greeter's memory could get corrupted by pressing "Cancel" after authentication (which would only happen if the PostLogin script caused a long enough delay to allow this to happen or perhaps on a really slow machine). (Brian Cameron) - Correct reading of config file in gdmflexiserver. (Christiaan Welvaart) - GNOME HIG fixes for the Language, Session, and Message dialogs. (Dennis Cranston) - Define SoundProgram to be /usr/bin/audioplay instead of /usr/bin/play on Solaris. /usr/bin/play does not exist on Solaris. - Better /etc/default/login support on Solaris. Previously it supported only PASSREQ. Now it supports PATH, SUPATH and CONSOLE (the same ones CDE login supports). Added new PasswordRequired gdm.conf setting so that PASSREQ can be controlled via gdm.conf as well. - Memory leaks fixed. (Steve Grubb/Brian Cameron) - Improvements to strings and docs (Adam Weinberger, Brian Cameron) - Translation updates (Takeshi AIHANA, Runa Bhattacharjee, Priit Laes, Chao-Hsiung Liao, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, Vincent van Adrighem, Funda Wang, Adam Weinberger) Note: GDM2 was originally written by Martin K. Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Much work has been done on GDM2 by George Lebl, and Brian Cameron currently shares maintainership duties with the Queen of England. 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.gnome.org/projects/gdm/ http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.8/ 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, Brian _______________________________________________ gnome-announce-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-announce-list
