Re: [gdm-list] Future of multi-display support in GDM

["Paulo Zanoni" <przanoni gmail com>]

2008/10/23 Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron sun com>:
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> Paulo:
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> Are you using the gdmdynamic patch with GDM 2.22 or later, or are you using
> the older GDM?  Is mdm free software?
I've been using Debian Lenny (2.20.7-3) and Ubuntu 8.04 (2.20-7) GDMs.

And mdm is free software (GPL 2).

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> I updated the patch in Bugzilla bug #536355 so it applies to the latest
> GDM 2.24 code, so if you are using the latest GDM you can use it:
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>   http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536355

Currently I have little time to test new stuff, but testing these
patches is certainly in my TODO list. When I get some time to test
them, I'll send some feedback =)

Thanks!

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> Brian
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>
>> Just to complement your e-mail:
>>
>> mdm, the "multiseat (pseudo-)display manager", if configured to use
>> GDM, uses gdmdynamic to handle its Xservers.
>>
>> gdmdynamic is waaay much better than specifying multiple xservers in
>> gdm.conf, because mdm (or multiseat users) shouldn't need to create a
>> new gdm.conf whenever it detects a new video output on the system, it
>> just needs to use a properly configured gdm.conf  and never need to
>> change gdm.conf again (imagine the case when the user adds a new video
>> card on the system, or when its video card starts supporting multiple
>> outputs, gdm.conf would have to be changed, which is bad).
>>
>> Looks like if newer versions of GDM don't support gdmdynamic some
>> multiseat users will get angry.
>>
>> If you're wondering about what exactly does mdm do, take a look at the
>> file that calls gdmdynamic:
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>>
>> http://git.c3sl.ufpr.br/gitweb?p=multiseat/mdm.git;a=blob;f=extra-modes/xephyr-gdm/src/xephyr-gdm;h=3e88e657df587fe14e478ac54bb60728b11dc870;hb=HEAD
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>> And this is the gdm.conf that it uses:
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>> http://git.c3sl.ufpr.br/gitweb?p=multiseat/mdm.git;a=blob;f=extra-modes/xephyr-gdm/gdm-config/gdm.conf-custom;h=327b3547f518ffa2aff87f85e352af1c8b391780;hb=HEAD
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>> For more information about mdm:
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>> http://wiki.c3sl.ufpr.br/multiseat/index.php/Mdm
>>
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Paulo R. Zanoni