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- GDM for Debian
- ==============
-
- "I get ugly fonts"
- ------------------
-
- In the past, as a quick workaround, GDM imposed a 96 DPI settings by
- passing "-dpi 96" to the X server on startup. This is a bad idea has
- there's no reason to override standard DPI detection mechanisms for all
- screens which might or might not be 96 DPI screens.
-
- DPI should be computed automatically based on the information on your
- screen that Xorg gets; ideally, Xorg would get the DPI right, but you
- can help Xorg by configuring it with your exact screen properties.
- If it's too complicated, you may still get the old behavior by
- setting:
- [server-Standard]
- command=/usr/bin/X -dpi 96 -audit 0
- in your gdm.conf. See the defaults.conf file to see how it's configured
- by default.
-
-
- Face Browser
- ------------
-
- If you enable the face browser in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf, gdm will look
- for face files (any gtk+-supported image format; see
- /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.2.0/loaders or similar for a list of installed
- loaders) in ~/.gnome2/photo or <greeter/GlobalFaceDir>/<loginname>,
- whichever is found first. Note that there is no filename extension
- for either location. greeter/GlobalFaceDir is set in
- /etc/gdm/gdm.conf
-
-
- Screen Saver
- ------------
-
- If you want a screensaver running with the greeter, you should use the
- BackgroundProgram option in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf, or make sure if you start
- a gtk program in the PreSession script, that it is started with the gdm
- userid, and not root
-
-
- Secure System Menu
- ------------------
-
- Debian versions 2.4.1.6-1 through 2.8.0.6-2 featured a
- "SecureSystemMenu" option in gdm.conf, that would require the root
- password to be entered for the reboot, shutdown, and suspend options
- on the system menu. Some time after GDM 2.4.1.6 was released, other parts
- of the GNOME desktop began talking to the gdm daemon, so that one could
- reboot or shutdown without having to return to the gdm login screen. These
- programs didn't support this option, and would have needed changes to do so.
- With gdm 2.13.0.10, the patch broke and would need a lot of debugging to get
- working again, and other programs talking to the daemon (gnome-session) would
- still have to be patched to support the option, or gdm patched to ignore
- them when they don't do authentication. If anyone really wants this
- functionality back, I suggest working with upstream so it can be integrated
- into all the parts of the GNOME desktop that it would now impact.
-
-
- Translation of the Debconf templates
- ------------------------------------
-
- A note to translators about the debconf templates -- translations
- should be sent to the xdm package. I don't use gettext-based
- templates in the source, because I sync to the ones in the xdm
- package, and don't have any that are not shared.
-
-