GDM 2.24.1 and XDMCP

[Uwe Laverenz]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:31:13PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

> This was discussed a lot of the GNOME development list.  I even posed it
> to our test users.  A lot of Linux users complained, but non of the
> FreeBSD users did.  I think some Linux distributions are shipping
> gdm-2.20, but we never did any testing of 2.20 with 2.23/2.24.  If you
> want to resurrect it, and test it out, we will consider re-adding the
> port as gdm220.

Ok, I have played around a bit:

- The last gdm 2.20 from ports compiles, installs and runs fine without
  a problem (as far as I can tell by now, since my test machine is still
  working on the libxcb-update). If I'm not the only one who is
  dissatisfied with gdm 2.24, re-adding 2.20 would be nice.

  To sum it up again:
     - XDMCP-Chooser would be there again
     - listening for XDMCP-connects would be working again
     - installing themes would be possible again
     - gdmsetup would be back

- There are patches for gdm 2.24.1 that seem to solve the XDMCP-problem
  on Fedora 10. I'm not a programmer, but I tested the patches and
  managed to get gdm listen to UDP 177 again, but another problem
  came up with the patched version of gdm that I wasn't able to solve.
  So I was forced to give up for now.

  Bug report:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476061

  Patches:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=327034
  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=125201&action=view


thanks for listening. :)

Uwe