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authorBrian Cameron <bcameron@src.gnome.org>2006-01-02 10:25:01 +0000
committerBrian Cameron <bcameron@src.gnome.org>2006-01-02 10:25:01 +0000
commit1b6b4bf511f4d9cba5741bcbd27ec0ef5712666d (patch)
tree945819d87f0a133a4d368fe64510d9d060475824
parent849269a9fc691f4015ac4ceb198fa112995bdb81 (diff)
downloadgdm-1b6b4bf511f4d9cba5741bcbd27ec0ef5712666d.tar.gz
Fixed spelling and comments.
-rw-r--r--NEWS17
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 114b8cf2..dee65315 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -13,10 +13,11 @@ Interface Changes:
This allows distributions to overwrite the gdm.conf file without worry
that the file contains any user customizations. When running "make install"
- GDM now compares the installed gdm.conf with the factory-gdm.conf file and
- if they are different moves the gdm.conf file to gdm.conf-custom to
- preserve user changes. If gdm.conf-custom already exists it is renamed to
- gdm.conf.org. Distributions should do something similar when upgrading GDM.
+ GDM now compares the already installed gdm.conf with the already installed
+ factory-gdm.conf file and if they both exist and are not the same, then
+ gdm.conf file is moved to gdm.conf-custom to preserve user changes. If the
+ gdm.conf-custom file already exists it is renamed to gdm.conf.org.
+ Distributions should do the same when upgrading GDM.
Note that this change is backwards compatible. GDM will still work as
it did before even if no gdm.conf-custom file exists on the system.
@@ -24,14 +25,15 @@ Interface Changes:
- gdmconfig no longer supports the --config command line option since it
now accesses the configuration data over the sockets protocol rather
- than reading the configuration files directly.
+ than reading the configuration files directly. Note the GDM daemon still
+ supports the --config command line option.
- Added PostDisplayProgram and the --with-prefetch configuration option
to support GDM running a prefetch script to preload libraries when it
firsts starts the greeter program, which has been shown to improve first
time login time. (Padraig O'Briain, Brian Cameron)
-- Add new prioity configuration option for servers defined in the
+- Add new priority configuration option for servers defined in the
[server-foo] section of the configuration files. This can be set from
-20 to +20 in order to specify the priority value given to the Xserver
on startup. (Philip Prindeville)
@@ -70,8 +72,7 @@ Other Changes:
that was causing core dumping with gdmsetup in the previous release.
(Brian Cameron)
-- Fixed bug with the --with-configdir configure option, which was not
- working properly. (Brian Cameron)
+- Fixed bug with the --with-configdir configure option. (Brian Cameron)
- Now use glib stdio functions like g_chmod instead of chmod.
(Brian Cameron)