xfdm

Jean-Philippe Guillemin jp.guillemin at free.fr
Sun Jul 1 08:40:25 CEST 2007


Anders F Björklund wrote:
> Jean-Philippe Guillemin:
>
>   
>>> I used a special stripped-down local RPM package called "GDM Lite", 
>>> but
>>> this
>>> could be formalized into a "real" Xfce-targetted variant of GDM
>>> perhaps... ?
>>> (the -lite package just omits a couple of binaries to cut dependencies
>>> down)
>>>
>>> # Customize: /etc/gdm/custom.conf [daemon]
>>> Greeter=/usr/libexec/gdmlogin
>>> # Customize: etc/gdm/custom.conf [greeter]
>>> Logo=/usr/share/icons/Fedora/96x96/places/start-here.png
>>>
>>> But it does need a real GUI for Xfce, so one doesn't have to edit
>>> configs.
>>> Why not start with http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/screenshots.html
>>> and
>>> port the backend over to use Xfce configurations instead of the GNOME
>>> ones ?
>>>       
>> Or you simply install Zenwalk Linux : this is the way we configure GDM
>> since ages ...
>>     
>
> Hmm, from what I can see the Zenwalk GDM package seems to carry the same
> dependencies as the usual GDM build on Fedora does, lots of GNOME stuff:
>
> 	http://repository.zenwalk.org/xap/gdm-2.18.2-i486-48.2.dep
>   
Correct
> If anyone is interested, here is the difference between the "gdm" RPM 
> and
> the "gdm-lite" version of it: 
> http://www.algonet.se/~afb/xfce/gdm-lite.diff
>   

Interesting ;)
> --anders
>
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