Re: Patches for GDM

[Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus FreeBSD org>]

On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 19:31, George wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 11:39:35AM -0500, Joe Clarke wrote:
> > These patches were submitted to the FreeBSD ports tree for GDM.  They
> > allow GDM to take advantage of login.conf on FreeBSD, and other OSes that
> > support login.conf.  They were written and submitted by Volker Stolz
> > <stolz hyperion informatik rwth-aachen de> with slight modifications by
> > Maxim Sobolev <sobomax freebsd org> and myself.
> > 
> > If there is a more formal way to submit patches to GDM, please let me
> > know.  Thanks.
> 
> I'm just patching up gdm2 HEAD (gnome2 version) to have this.  Some stuff
> changed so the patch you sent was way out of date (I know it's my fault for
> being so lazy and waiting so long with it).  The good news is the language
> selection should work though.  That is, unless the user selected and saved
> another language, then gdm uses the language that comes from login.conf.
> 
> Of course I haven't even tried compiling this since I don't have freeBSD so
> YMMV.

Cool.  I'll be working on the gdm2 port to FreeBSD this weekend.  If you
could send me your patches so far, that might save me some work. 
Thanks.

Joe

> 
> George
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