On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 01:43:26PM -0400, Frank Griffin wrote: > I was looking around to figure out how to enable XDMCP support in > GDM, and noticed something strange. > > In the GNOME site GDM3 documentation, they give several options for > GDM configuration none of which seem to exist in cauldron.
I'm guessing the documentation is outdated. > An example is given of using gconf-edit to access apps/gdm, but no > such key exists. Mention is made of using a "gdm3setup" executable > that we don't seem to have. GDM has been migrated to gsettings (in practice: dconf). > Mention is made of "gdm" directories in various locations under > /usr/share and /etc which we don't seem to have, and of enabling > XDMCP by setting "Enable=true" in a file called daemon.conf, but the > only daemon.conf we have is in /etc/pulse. > > I did find /usr/share/X11/dm.d/20gdm.conf and > /etc/dbus-1/system.d/gdm.conf, but neither of these seem to have > anything to do with XDMCP. > > I did find a barebones /etc/X11/gdm/custom.conf which had an empty > [Xdmcp] section, but adding Enable=true here had no effect on > getting the GDM main dropdown to show a Remote Login option. It > did, however, get the GDM server to export the host as eligible for > XDMCP, and accept a logon. However, the GDM screen it puts up has > no option to close the connection, or anything else indicating that > it is a remote login. > > What do we do in MGA to enable GDM as an XDMCP client, or configure > it in general ? No clue at all. Suggest asking upstream. XDMCP was recently discussed in relation to fallback mode, but other than that I don't know much (assumed it was working). -- Regards, Olav
