PKGBUILD for new GDM

onestep_ua · 2009-07-29 16:31:33

Hello!

Today I was curious about trying new and fancy GDM, which is packaged in recent versions of Fedora, so I've decided to write a PKGBUILD for it. This was not so hard as I thought and I really liked the result, despite there are some missing features like theming support or gdmsetup. But it works (and shuts down ) perfectly, many of its aspects (including fonts) can be configured via gconf, it can be integrated with plymouth, and, most important, it already integrates well with GNOME (including this cool user switch applet). So I've uploaded it to AUR, and if you are interested too you can give it a try (I've called a package gdm-nextgen) - as I really think it's already good enough to be used instead of good old GDM 2.20.

Enjoy!

Val L.

djszapi · 2009-07-29 21:12:51

extra/gdm 2.20.10-1 (gnome-extra)

So your one is 2.27... You could post it to the maintainer of gdm, jgc to put into the testing repository, if you feel like, but i don't think it will be nice idea in AUR, but you can do it.

Did you use namcap on the package/pkgbuild ?

onestep_ua · 2009-07-29 22:36:52

djszapi wrote:

extra/gdm 2.20.10-1 (gnome-extra)
So your one is 2.27... You could post it to the maintainer of gdm, jgc to put into the testing repository, if you feel like, but i don't think it will be nice idea in AUR, but you can do it.

Good idea about testing, thanks. I'll write to ML tomorrow morning.

djszapi wrote:

Did you use namcap on the package/pkgbuild ?

Nope, I was just experimenting with shebang in PKGBUILD. And it worked, and this is fun.

tomk · 2009-07-29 22:46:53

shebang is not required - PKGBUILDs are text files, not executables.

djszapi · 2009-07-30 18:49:45

Most of us use namcap to check the package/pkgbuild, you can try it, maybe you wlill see some interesting error/warning in some situation, which is not a good idea in a pkgbuild.

Berseker · 2009-08-09 08:07:39

I've just installed it without problems, except that my language (italian) in GNOME is gone. Even if i select Italian from the menu when logging, English language is all I obtain.

EDIT

I just solved this problem with language.. change the file .dmrc in your users home. this is mine now

[Desktop]
Session=gnome
Language=it_IT.UTF-8

for Italian language. Obviously modify it accordingly with your language

Last edited by Berseker (2009-08-09 18:59:16)

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#1 2009-07-29 16:31:33

PKGBUILD for new GDM

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Re: PKGBUILD for new GDM

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Re: PKGBUILD for new GDM

#4 2009-07-29 22:46:53

Re: PKGBUILD for new GDM

#5 2009-07-30 18:49:45

Re: PKGBUILD for new GDM

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