GDM
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Introduction to GDM
GDM is the GNOME Display Manager, a graphical login program.
Project Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/
Dependencies
Required
Optional
Creating the GDM User/Group
groupadd -g 23 gdm &&
useradd -c "GDM Daemon Owner" -d /dev/null \
-g gdm -s /bin/bash -u 23 gdm
Non-Multilib
GDM looks in /usr/X11R6 for the X server, If you installed an X Window System to a prefix other then /usr/X11R6 then run the following command:
sed -i "s:/usr/X11R6:${XORG_PREFIX}:g" $(grep -lr /usr/X11R6 *)
Compile the package:
CPPFLAGS="-I${XORG_PREFIX}/include" \
./configure --prefix=${GNOME_PREFIX} \
--sysconfdir=/etc/gnome \
--localstatedir=/var/lib \
--libexecdir=${GNOME_PREFIX}/lib/gdm \
--mandir=${GNOME_PREFIX}/share/man \
--with-dbus-sys=/etc/dbus-1/system.d \
--with-pam-prefix=/etc --with-xevie=yes &&
make
Install the package
make install
Multilib
32Bit
GDM looks in /usr/X11R6 for the X server, If you installed an X Window System to a prefix other then /usr/X11R6 then run the following command:
sed -i "s:/usr/X11R6:${XORG_PREFIX}:g" $(grep -lr /usr/X11R6 *)
Compile the package:
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH32}" &&
CPPFLAGS="-I${XORG_PREFIX}/include" \
CC="gcc ${BUILD32}" USE_ARCH=32 \
./configure --prefix=${GNOME_PREFIX} \
--sysconfdir=/etc/gnome \
--localstatedir=/var/lib \
--libexecdir=${GNOME_PREFIX}/lib/gdm \
--mandir=${GNOME_PREFIX}/share/man \
--with-dbus-sys=/etc/dbus-1/system.d \
--with-pam-prefix=/etc --with-xevie=yes &&
make
Install the package
make install && unset PKG_CONFIG_PATH
N32
GDM looks in /usr/X11R6 for the X server, If you installed an X Window System to a prefix other then /usr/X11R6 then run the following command:
sed -i "s:/usr/X11R6:${XORG_PREFIX}:g" $(grep -lr /usr/X11R6 *)
Compile the package:
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATHN32}" &&
CPPFLAGS="-I${XORG_PREFIX}/include" \
CC="gcc ${BUILDN32}" USE_ARCH=n32 \
./configure --prefix=${GNOME_PREFIX} \
--libdir=${GNOME_PREFIX}/lib32 \
--sysconfdir=/etc/gnome \
--localstatedir=/var/lib \
--libexecdir=${GNOME_PREFIX}/lib32/gdm \
--mandir=${GNOME_PREFIX}/share/man \
--with-dbus-sys=/etc/dbus-1/system.d \
--with-pam-prefix=/etc --with-xevie=yes &&
make
Install the package
make install && unset PKG_CONFIG_PATH
64Bit
GDM looks in /usr/X11R6 for the X server, If you installed an X Window System to a prefix other then /usr/X11R6 then run the following command:
sed -i "s:/usr/X11R6:${XORG_PREFIX}:g" $(grep -lr /usr/X11R6 *)
Compile the package:
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH64}" &&
CPPFLAGS="-I${XORG_PREFIX}/include" \
CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" USE_ARCH=64 \
./configure --prefix=${GNOME_PREFIX} \
--libdir=${GNOME_PREFIX}/lib64 \
--sysconfdir=/etc/gnome \
--localstatedir=/var/lib \
--libexecdir=${GNOME_PREFIX}/lib64/gdm \
--mandir=${GNOME_PREFIX}/share/man \
--with-dbus-sys=/etc/dbus-1/system.d \
--with-pam-prefix=/etc --with-xevie=yes &&
make
Install the package
make install && unset PKG_CONFIG_PATH
Configuring GDM
The default configuration parameters are stored in a static file ($GNOME_PREFIX/share/gdm/defaults.conf). This file is not intended to be edited. If modification of the configuration is necessary, you should add parameters to the /etc/gnome/gdm/custom.conf file. The settings in this file will override the settings in the static file. The same parameters in the static file are used in the configuration file.
If you have Linux-PAM installed run the following commands:
cat > /etc/pam.d/gdm << "EOF" &&
#%PAM-1.0
auth include system-auth
account include system-auth
password include system-auth
session include system-auth
EOF
cp /etc/pam.d/gdm{,-autologin} &&
echo "auth required pam_permit.so" >> /etc/pam.d/gdm-autologin
Note
Gnome expects to be started with dbus-launch. The following makes the appropriate change to the session script so that happens:
sed -i -e "/^Exec=/s/=/&dbus-launch --exit-with-session /" \
-e "/^TryExec=/s@=.*@=/usr/bin/dbus-launch@" \
${GNOME_PREFIX}/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop
