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| -rw-r--r-- | system/gdm/README | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | system/gdm/README.SLACKWARE | 32 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | system/gdm/gdm.SlackBuild | 1 |
3 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/system/gdm/README b/system/gdm/README index dbca3fde170df..118dc4ea642a1 100644 --- a/system/gdm/README +++ b/system/gdm/README @@ -6,4 +6,6 @@ If you want xscreensaver to recognize gdm and add a "New Login" button to the unlock screen, add this line to your ~/.xscreensaver file: newLoginCommand: gdmflexiserver -ls +See README.SLACKWARE for some (hopefully) soon to be outdated information. + This requires libgnomecanvas. diff --git a/system/gdm/README.SLACKWARE b/system/gdm/README.SLACKWARE new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..6233b97c99010 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/gdm/README.SLACKWARE @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +Since Slackware now includes polkit and consolekit, gdm will "poke" consolekit +when your session starts. This is a good thing, but since Slackware patched +the system xinitrc scripts so start kde and xfce with ck-launch-session, you +will notice that there are now *two* registered consolekit sessions (using +ck-list-sessions). You will also notice that one of them is marked as +inactive, and polkit is setup so that inactive sessions are not allowed to +do anything (there's not even an opportunity to authenticate). Therefore, +anything parented from that inactive session is not going to be able to +authenticate using polkit. + +Thankfully, there's an easy solution: edit the kde and xfce xinitrc scripts +to look like this at the relevant spots: + +In /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.xfce: + if [ -z $DESKTOP_SESSION ]; then + ck-launch-session $xfcesm + else + $xfcesm + fi + +In /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.kde: + # Start the window manager: + if [ -z $DESKTOP_SESSION ]; then + ck-launch-session startkde + else + startkde + fi + +This will cause sessions launched from gdm and kdm to *not* call +ck-launch-session when invoking the relevant desktop environment. +Pat is aware of this and will hopefully be getting fixes in /patches :-) + diff --git a/system/gdm/gdm.SlackBuild b/system/gdm/gdm.SlackBuild index 418279c1e1f9f..3d1181555564d 100644 --- a/system/gdm/gdm.SlackBuild +++ b/system/gdm/gdm.SlackBuild @@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ cp -a \ AUTHORS ChangeLog COPYING INSTALL MAINTAINERS NEWS README* TODO docs/C/* \ $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild +cat $CWD/README.SLACKWARE > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/README.SLACKWARE mkdir -p $PKG/install cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc |