[gdm-list] GDM2 2.8.0.6 (stable), the "Much More Stable" release

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

AOOH-GAH
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(If you have no clue what gdm is, skip a few paragraphs down first)

The 2.8.0.6 release of GDM2 is a stable release which fixes
some significant problems discovered since the last release.
These fixes have also been made to the latest 2.13.0.1 unstable
release but it is important for these fixes to also be
available in a stable release.

Most significant is a fix to a high priority bug that ensures
that the PostSession script is always executed and a fix to
a problem where GDM sometimes stops managing a display.  Other
useful fixes listed below.

Changes

2.8.0.6 stuff:

- Fix problem with PostSession script not always
  getting executed when user kills the Xserver
  with ctrl-alt-backspace.  This is caused because
  an xioerror is generated when the clients are
  killed and this needs to be ignored for the
  PostSession script to be processed.  This problem
  tended not to manifest in GDM 2.6 since the
  call to kill the clients was made earlier.
  However, it was still a race condition in 2.6
  and this fix ensures that the slave will never
  exit too early.  (Jerry G. DeLapp)

- The "OK" and "Cancel" buttons in gdmlogin and
  gdmgreeter now work consistantly.  Now the gdmlogin
  "Cancel" button is active when the Username is
  requested and pressing it just clears the field, so
  it works like gdmgreeter.  Also fixed a bug in
  gdmgreeter where a user could corrupt gdmgreeter's
  memory by hitting cancel after authentication, which
  could only happen if the PostLogin script caused a
  long enough delay to allow this to happen.
  (Brian Cameron)

- No longer set tooltips for menu items in gdmlogin.
  They are distracting and do not work with
  accessibility.  No GNOME programs use menu tooltips
  and it is not recommend.  (Brian Cameron)

- If slave does not respond to a SIGTERM, try a
  SIGKILL the second time.  This resolves a problem
  where GDM sometimes stops managing a display
  because it just keeps waiting for the slave to
  die.  See bug #113902.  (Vaclav Smilauer).

- GDM now uses VT_GETSTATE for peeking VT freeness

- Now GDM warns correctly about caps lock if an
  alternate keymap is enabled.  kbGetState is used
  instead of XkbGetIndicator State.
  (Sebastien Bacher)

- Now set cursor and watch as soon as GTK+ is
  initialized and the configure file read, which
  shortens the amount of time the backgrounds is
  Xserver default grey.  Cleaned up the code so
  that all programs use a common function to set the
  background.  (Brian Cameron)

- Fix reading of config file in gdmflexiserver so
  it properly reads in the available servers.
  (Christiaan Welvaart)

- Fixed race condition where a variable used by
  the signal handlers was not being set until after
  the signal handlers were setup.  Now it is set
  before avoiding a race.  (Simon Bowden/Brian
  Cameron)

- Define SoundProgram to be /usr/bin/autoplay on
  Solaris instead of /usr/bin/play, since
  /usr/bin/play doesn't exist on Solaris.

- Check for XInput fixed in configure and add a
  check for libgen.h to avoid compiler warnings.
  (Brian Cameron)

- Updated check in configure for socklen_t so it
  includes sys/socket.h to better support BSD
  platforms that define socklen_t there.
  (dmacks netspace org)

- No longer link vicious-extensions with the gesture
  listeners, since they don't use vicious-extensions.

- Translation updates (Takeshi AIHANA, Runa Bhattacharjee,
  Dan Damian, Maxim Dziumanenko, Laurent Dhima,
  Theppitak Karoonboonyanan, Priit Laes, Inaki Larranaga,
  Roozbeh Pournader, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, Christian
  Rose, Ivar Smolin, Marcel Telka, Ilkka Tuohela, Miloslav
  Trmac)

Note:  GDM2 was originally written by Martin K. Petersen <mkp mkp net>.
Much work has been done on GDM2 by George Lebl, and Brian Cameron
currently shares maintainership duties with the Queen of England.

Note2:  If installing from the tarball do note that make install overwrites
most of the setup files, all except gdm.conf.  It will however save backups
with the .orig extension first.

#ifndef GDM_DISABLE_DEPRECATED
Note3:  Note3 has been depracated ...
#endif /* GDM_DISABLE_DEPRECATED */

Downloading:
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Webpage: http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.8/

No RPM this time around BTW.  Have fun.  A spec file is included though,
so you can try:

  rpmbuild -ta gdm-whatever.tar.gz

Have fun,

Brian