GDM2 2.15.0 (unstable), the "Squidlet" 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 2.15.0 release is an unstable release of GDM with the following
new features:

- Explicitly adjust the effective GID before running the child session
  program to avoid remaining with high privileges.  Fixes bug #340347.
  (Julio M. Merino Vidal)

- Now allow the PAM Stack to be specified in the GDM configuration
  instead of being hardcoded to "gdm".  (Brian Cameron)

- Per-display configuration is now supported.  The user may create
  /etc/gdm/custom.conf:<dispnum> files (/etc/gdm/custom.conf:0 for
  display :0) and GUI related configuration settings in the per-display
  file will override for that display.  (Brian Cameron)

- Greeter themes now support real GTK+ button types, making gdmgreeter
  better support a11y and allow GTK themeable buttons.  (Brian Cameron)

- New pam-error-logo greeter type to allow an image to be displayed only
  when the PAM error message label is showing a message.  (Brian
  Cameron)

- Updated config/gettextfoo.h to reflect current strings for
  translation.  Fixes bug #340017.  (Brian Cameron)

- Updated comments in GDM configuration files (Brian Cameron)

- GDM now uses the string "Start Over" instead of "Cancel" in the GUI.
  (Brian Cameron)

- Many updates to documentation.  Explain gtk-theme greeter tag, new
  button and pam-error-icon, and startover greeter types, and better
  info about PAM.  (Brian Cameron)

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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Online Documentation: 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