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Re: GDM Greeter Custom Commands
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Quentin Smith)
Tue Dec 2 01:22:11 2008
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 01:21:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Quentin Smith <quentin@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
cc: athena10@mit.edu, Geoffrey G Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
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On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Greg Price wrote:
>> 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.
Sorry for the confusion. gdm 2.20, the old mainline, supports 90% of what
we need but doesn't set DISPLAY when running custom commands. gdm's svn
HEAD, the new mainline, doesn't appear to have custom command support at
all (but the docs still refer to it, suggesting that they're probably
going to reimplement it before they switch).
Adding support for setting the DISPLAY (and related) environment variables
would be a ~5-10 line patch to the gdm 2.20 source.
--Quentin
>
> Greg
>
