[627] in athena10
Re: GDM Greeter Custom Commands
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Price)
Tue Dec 2 01:20:04 2008
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 01:19:19 -0500
From: Greg Price <price@MIT.EDU>
To: Quentin Smith <quentin@mit.edu>
Cc: athena10@mit.edu, Geoffrey G Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
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On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 01:06:12AM -0500, Quentin Smith wrote:
> I investigated the feasibility of adding custom buttons to the GDM greeter
> UI for performing actions such as registration. Unfortunately, this is not
> possible in the version of gdm we're running. It has functionality for
> running custom commands and associating those with buttons, but the
> DISPLAY environment variable is not set for those commands.
>
> gdm 2.20, which ships with Intrepid, is the last in this gdm series. The
> gdm code base has been forked for a complete rewrite, and the custom
> command functionality doesn't appear to exist in the (unfinished) new
> version (but the distros still seem to be using the old branch).
I'm confused by all the different versions you refer to. It sounds
like the desired feature doesn't exist in any upstream version, right?
Neither the one in hardy, nor the end-of-the-line one in intrepid,
nor the development version.
Greg
