On 2 feb 2010, at 00:54, Brian Cameron wrote: > > Paul: > >> Is it possible to run GDM inside a zone on b131 ? I would like to have a >> zone I can use to run stuff like netbeans etc in, and >> I don’t want to use the global zone for that. > > It would think that it should be possible, though I have not tried it > myself. > >> As far as I can tell the gdm smf service depends on dbus and that is marked >> as global zone only. > > I do not believe that GDM depends on the system D-Bus service. Instead, > D-Bus and ConsoleKit communicate with each other via D-Bus. So, it > depends on D-Bus, but not the system D-Bus instance. >
Well , according to the default SMF configuration it seems to. Maybe this is a bogus dependency but that’s the way the system is configured by default. I’ll see what happens if I delete the dependency from SMF. > So, this should not be an issue, I'd think. If anything, there may be > an issue with the battery status applet in GDM not working properly if > it cannot connect to the system D-Bus, though that may not be an issue > if you are using a server that does not run on a battery. > It is on a server so that applet would not be useful anyway. >> One more complication is that gdm is missing the old dtlogin option to >> select a remote host to connect to. >> Or is that option hidden/disabled by default ? > > The new GDM does support running as an XDMCP server and supports > running XDMCP clients via indirect queries. However, it currently does > not support the ability to launch the XDMCP chooser from the login > screen. This is a known regression: > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592976 > Is there anything I need to configure to have gdm be an XDMCP server ? Is there any other way to connect to a xdmcp server from gdm ? > Brian _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
