[Slackbuilds-users] GDM vs. ConsoleKit in -current

[Robby Workman]

On Wed, 9 Dec 2015 12:00:44 +0100
Nicolas Kovacs <info at microlinux.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> The issue has already been raised on LQ, but I think this is a better
> place to discuss it. Here's the context.
> 
> Just installed a stock Slackware64 -current on a box, full
> installation without KDE.
> 
> Then I built libgnomecanvas and gdm from SlackBuilds.org. Switched to
> init4 to fire up GDM, logged in to Xfce, and here's what I get:
> 
> $ ck-list-sessions
> Session1:
> 	unix-user = '0'
> 	realname = '(null)'
> 	seat = 'Seat1'
> 	session-type = ''
> 	active = TRUE
> 	x11-display = ':0'
> 	x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7'
> 	display-device = ''
> 	remote-host-name = ''
> 	is-local = TRUE
> 	on-since = '2015-12-09T10:48:45.985157Z'
> 	login-session-id = '4294967295'
> 
> When I remove GDM and use XDM instead, I'm getting this, as expected:
> 
> $ ck-list-sessions
> Session2:
> 	unix-user = '1000'
> 	realname = 'Niki Kovacs'
> 	seat = 'Seat1'
> 	session-type = ''
> 	active = TRUE
> 	x11-display = ':0'
> 	x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7'
> 	display-device = ''
> 	remote-host-name = ''
> 	is-local = TRUE
> 	on-since = '2015-12-09T10:54:56.858488Z'
> 	login-session-id = '4294967295'
> 
> 
> I've googled around a bit, but to no avail. If anyone has a remote
> idea of how to make GDM behave under Slackware -current, I'd be
> grateful.


I looked around in the gdm code and don't see anything obvious that
would make it not work with CK2, and like you, google turned up nothing
useful. I did notice that PCLinuxOS is using gdm-2.20.11 as well, but
aside from a special dbus config file (which I tried here with no
change to behavior), I don't see anything special that they do. I'll
note that they use PAM though, so maybe that makes a difference.

These days, I don't even use gdm any more - I'm on xdm with alienBOB's
config (slightly modified) from his livecd work. The only things that 
users might miss are a session chooser (change $HOME.xinitrc instead)
and switching users (I don't like that anyway, and you indicated the
same, so good riddance to that one, right? :))

If someone wants to poke around at it and fix it, great; otherwise,
gdm will dropped for 14.2.

-RW
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