The attached patch fixes a number of problems with GDM in 2.17:
1) Build 2.17 with the configure option --with-console-kit=no since
GDM doesn't work on Solaris with this feature turned on yet.
Without this change, authentication always will fail with GDM.
2) Call xterm with full pathname in /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession script
since at this point the user's $PATH (say from $HOME/.profile)
will override the default path, and it may not contain
/usr/openwin/bin. This ensures that xterm will start properly.
I noticed this problem while fixing #4 below since I don't have
/usr/openwin/bin in my personal $PATH.
3) Call ctrun with full path also since it is just safer.
4) Rename "Default System Session" to "Run Xclient script"
since this more accurately describes what this choice does.
Now if it can't find the Xclient script it pops up an error
message in zenity and starts an xterm (like failsafe). This
is better than previous behavior where it tried to call xsm
which doesn't exist on Solaris and generated a cryptic error
message. Thanks to Padraig for this patch.
5) Move CDE.desktop.in back to gdm-01-branding-defaults-solaris.diff
since I now realize that this really is a solaris branding patch
and not a general one.
6) In my last patch I fixed the name of the gnome.desktop from
OpenSolaris to "Java Desktop System" but forgot to chagne
the comment. Now fixed.
Brian
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