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| author | William Jon McCann <mccann@src.gnome.org> | 2007-06-22 17:18:10 +0000 |
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| committer | William Jon McCann <mccann@src.gnome.org> | 2007-06-22 17:18:10 +0000 |
| commit | 89ce606a39045a2cad59219b74fa4f5d9602f2f8 (patch) | |
| tree | bad8452cf917ae58dd1c4635a3533558cb53b90d /NEWS | |
| parent | 85edd92d6de2f2b2e03fcd1097ef199df11c5aa8 (diff) | |
| download | gdm-89ce606a39045a2cad59219b74fa4f5d9602f2f8.tar.gz | |
Move old info out of the way
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@@ -1,4670 +0,0 @@ -Ahh news... - -2.19.0 Stuff: - -Interface Changes: - -- Now the GDM PidFile is now specified as /var/run/gdm.pid and the - GDM configuration key PidFile has been deprecated. The location - of the PidFile can be configured with the configure --with-pid-file - option. (Brian Cameron, William Jon McCann) - -- The GDM AlwaysRestartServer configuration option is deprecated and - GDM will now always restart the Xserver between users. This makes - GDM work more reliably since reusing the Xserver can expose memory - leaks and instabilities in the Xserver code. (Brian Cameron, - William Jon McCann) - -- Now the GDM LogDir is set to /var/log/gdm rather than /var/lib/log/gdm - by default. Users can configure this with the configure - --with-log-file option. (Brian Cameron) - -- Remove logic to call whack_clients when closing the session. This - code was written to address bug #126071, to ensure that all clients - are killed on session exit. However, this approach does not work - well and causes GDM to fail badly when you kill the Xserver via - control-al-backspace on some environments. If there is still a need - to kill clients on session exit, a better approach will need to be - designed. (Cesare Tirabassi) - -- Now GDM supports Xephyr as the Nested Xserver command. GDM will use - Xephyr by default if it is on the system, and fallback to Xnest. Xephyr - works much better than Xnest. (Brian Cameron) - -- Now gdmgreeter will not display the Face Browser is the GDM configuration - option Browser is false. Now gdmsetup supports a "Themed with face - browser" option to support selecting this. - -- Comment in GDM System Defaults configuration file now shows "true" - for ConfigAvailable since this value has been defaulting to true for - some time and the comment in the System Defaults configuration file - was incorrect. - -- Now gdmphotosetup.desktop specifies NotShowIn=GNOME since the About-Me - capplet is a better place for configuring the user's face image in GNOME. - -New interfaces: - -- Add min-screen-height tag to gdmgreeter parser logic so that certain - elements in the theme will only display if the screen is large - enough. (Ray Strode). - -- New configuration option SystemCommandsInMenu to configure which - system commands (reboot, shutdown, suspend, etc.) appear in the GDM - greeter system menu. New configuration option AllowLogoutActions - to specify which system commands are supported by the QUERY_LOGOUT_ACTION, - SET_LOGOUT_ACTION, and SET_SAFE_LOGOUT action gdmflexiserver commands. - This allows GDM to be configured to support shutdown, reboot, suspend - from the user session, but no from the login screen directly, if - desired. In situations where you want the user to authenticate before - being able to shutdown or reboot the machine, this feature would be - useful. - -- GDM Now supports RBAC (Role Based Access Control) for specifying - which actions (reboot, shutdown, suspend, etc.) are supported on a per-user - basis. This feature is only available if GDM is compiled with RBAC support - enabled. The new configuration option RBACSystemCommandKeys allows an RBAC - key to be specified for each system command. Only users who have RBAC - authority will be able to query or set the logout action. The GDM GUI will - only display actions for which the "gdm" user has RBAC authority. GDM will - assume that all users have authority for actions which do not have an RBAC - key associated with them. - -- Now support XnestUnscaledFontPath configuration option, which allows GDM - to work with Xnest. Xorg 7.2 XGetFontPath function now returns fontpath - with the ":unscaled" prefix, which Xsun Xnest cannot handle. Setting - XnestUnscaledFontPath=false, will strip the ":unscaled" prefix from the - fontpath so that it can work. (Brian Cameron) - -New features, improvements, and bug fixes: - -- GDM had a bug that would happen after the user asked to run the - "Configure GDM" menu choice. If the user typed the wrong password, - it would ask up to 3 times. If the user typed the correct password - on the 2nd or 3rd try, it would start a root user session rather - than running gdmsetup. This problem would only happen if using PAM - for authenticating passwords. Now GDM only asks for the root - passwords once, and only runs gdmsetup if the password is correct. - This bug was introduced into GDM 2.18.0 when Ludwig Nussel made some - improvements to make the PAM logic more generic (Brian Cameron) - -- Much cleanup work in the GDM code, which now makes more use of - GObjects (e.g. XDMCP code). Configuration logic rewritten to no - longer use vicious-extensions and now uses GKeyFile. (William Jon - McCann) - -- Now when a user changes the language choice in GDM, it will ask if - the user wants to restart the GDM GUI in the selected language. - (Takao Fujiwara, Brian Cameron) - -- Many improvements supporting languages. Now all LC_* settings are - normalized to LANG, and input methods (IIIM->XIM) are started. - (Hidetoshi Tajima, Chookij Vanatham) - -- Fix check in gdmgreeter so that the language combo style selection - works. (Simon) - -- Add ATK label for the entry field in gdmgreeter for better - accessibility support. (David Zeuthen) - -- In gdmsetup, only show tar and compressed tar files in the file chooser - for selecting gdmgreeter themes to install. (Kristof Vansant) - -- Now the "Configure GDM" option is not displayed when accessibility is - enabled in GDM. This is because gdmsetup currently hangs when the - user tries to run gdmsetup from the greeter program. Not really a - fix, but prevents the user from getting into a situation that causes - a system hang. (Brian Cameron) - -- Now Face Browser displays non-utf8 characters as '?' rather than - crashing when trying to display such characters. (Ray Strode) - -- Improve GDM messages, correcting spelling and grammar mistakes - (Brian Cameron) - -- Fix detection of user specified in flexi command. (William Jon - McCann) - -- gdmflexiserver now properly initializes GTK+. (William Jon McCann) - -- Call "xrdb -merge /etc/X11/Xresources" in the Init script so that the - GDM GUI is properly configured with Xft rsources. Fixes bug #301826. - (Ray Strode) - -- Now desktop categories for all GDM related desktop files should be - correct. (Brian Cameron) - -- Fix gdm startup script so it works with Solaris /bin/sh. (Brian - Cameron) - -- Fix a strcpy call in gui/gdmlanguages.c so source and destination do - not overlap. (Ray Strode) - -- Remove gnome glade references since GNOME does not use libglade anymore. - (Kristof Vansant) - -- Many improvements to GDM docs. (Brian Cameron, William Jon McCann) - -- Translation updates (Djihed Afifi, Takeshi AIHANA, Leonardo - Ferreira Fontenelle, Jakub Friedl, Pema Geyleg, Priit Laes, Duarte - Loreto, Kjartan Maraas, Daniel Nylander, Kostas Papadimas, Ignacio - Casal Quinteiro, Hendrik Richter, Funda Wang) - -2.18.1 Stuff: - -- The GDM configuration option daemon/PidFile is now deprecated and - GDM now always uses /var/run/gdm.pid. The location can be configured - at compile time with the configure --with-pid-file option. This - fixes bug #162849. (William Jon McCann) - -- Now GDM supports Xephyr as the Nested Xserver command. GDM will use - Xephyr by default if it is on the system, and fallback to Xnest. Xephyr - works much better than Xnest. (Brian Cameron) - -- GDM application desktop files now use the correct categories, so the - menu choices should appear in the correct place in the menu. (Brian - Cameron) - -- Remove the userlist from the circles and happygnome themes since this - was causing problems for some users. This change will go into 2.20 - where we are fixing the problem better by fixing gdmsetup to support - setting the configuration so that gdmlogin and gdmgreeter work the - same way with the Browser key. - -- Now gdmgreeter has an ATK label for the entry field. (David Zeuthen) - -- Fix check so language combo style works. Fixes bug #423063. (Simon) - -- Now "Configure GDM" menu choice is not available when accessibility is - turned on since running gdmsetup in this configuration causes GDM to - hang. Until the hanging bug is fixed, it's better to not allow the - user to get into this situation. (Brian Cameron) - -- Now support XnestUnscaledFontPath configuration option, which allows GDM - to work with Xnest. Xorg 7.2 XGetFontPath function now returns fontpath - with the ":unscaled" prefix, which Xsun Xnest cannot handle. Setting - XnestUnscaledFontPath=false, will strip the ":unscaled" prefix from the - fontpath so that it can work. (Brian Cameron) - -- GDM daemon no longer links with D-Bus if ConsoleKit is not enabled. - (William Jon McCann) - -- Remove gnome glade references since GNOME does not use libglade anymore. - (Kristof Vansant) - -- Translation updates (Takeshi AIHANA, Jakub Friedl, Leonardo Ferreira - Fontenelle, Pema Geyleg, Priit Laes, Kjartan Maraas, Inaki Larranaga - Murgoitio, Kostas Papadimas, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, Hendrik Richter, - Changwoo Ryu, Claudio Saavedra) - -2.18.0 Stuff: - -- Fix gdmchooser so the Cancel button works. (Brian Cameron) - -- Fix desktop files so they include "GNOME" and "GTK" and remove "Application". - Fixes bug #417350. Now gdmsetup uses the full path in Exec, not just - TryExec, so that if gdmsetup isn't in the user's PATH it will still work. - (Brian Cameron) - -- Update of ConsoleKit parameter names. Fixes enhancement request #415181. - (William Jon McCann) - -- Fix memory leaks. (Brian Cameron) - -- Translation updates (Djihed Afifi, Josep Puigdemont i Casamaj\303\263, - Maxim Dziumanenko, Artur Flinta, Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle, Leonid - Kanter, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan, Gabor Kelemen, David Lodge, Gintautas - Miliauskas, Duarte Loreto, Daniel Nylander, Ankit Patel, Ani Peter, - Thierry Randrianiriana, St\303\251phane Raimbault, Hendrik Richter, - Erdal Ronahi, Changwoo Ryu, Alexander Shopov, Ilkka Tuohela, Funda Wang) - -2.17.8 Stuff: - -- In gdmlogin, change "Session" mnemonic to "e" instead of "s" - so it doesn't conflict with the "Start Again" button. -- Now AlwaysLoginCurrentSession is set to true by default. - -- Fix spacing in gdmsetup so it uses less vertical space. (Lukasz - Zalewski) - -- Fix gdmchooser so it builds with HURD. - -- Fix comparison with string literal in gdmdynamic. (Hans Petter - Jansson) - -- On Solaris, gnome.session script calls /usr/dt/config/Xsession.jds - instead of gnome.session since Xsession.jds starts D-Bus daemons - needed for GNOME to run properly. (Brian Cameron) - -- Translation updates (Takeshi AIHANA, Josep Puigdemont i Casamaj\303\263, - Nguy\341\273\205n Th\303\241i Ng\341\273\215c Duy, Artur Flinta, - Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle, Leonid Kanter, Gabor Kelemen, Priit Laes, - David Lodge, Kjartan Maraas, Daniel Nylander, Hendrik Richter, - Changwoo Ryu, Thomas Thurman, Ilkka Tuohela) - -2.17.7 Stuff: - -- New sockets command FLEXI_XNEST_USER and FLEXI_XSERVER_USER. This is - used to start login procedure by programs like gnome-screensaver and the - Fast User Switch applet. (Matthias Clasen) - -- Improvements to PAM logic so that it works more generically with PAM - modules. (Ludwig Nussel) - -- Better fix for not showing the face browser if the userlist is empty. - This avoids a needless selection "changed" signal from getting generated. - (Ludwig Nussel) - -- Fix so ConsoleKit logic does not use dbus-glib bindings to using the - lower level API instead. Fixes bug #400793. - -- Fixes for compiler warnings and for c99 compile issues. (Ludwig Nussel - and Jens Granseuer) - -- Avoid catching sigchld when trying to call XOpenDisplay. This corrects - an issue where GDM catches a second SIGCHLD when trying to restart. - This causes the slave to freeze even though the Xserver and the session - are killed, causing the display to no longer manage. - (Roberto Tam) - -- Improvements to PAM documentation in GDM docs. (Brian Cameron and - Gary Winiger) - -- Translation updates (Djihed Afifi, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan, Priit Laes, - David Lodge, Duarte Loreto, Daniel Nylander, St\303\251phane Raimbault, - Hendrik Richter, Alexander Shopov) - -2.17.6 Stuff: - -- More verbose error messages from GDM daemon and gdmsetup when custom.config - file is missing. Now GDM will not start gdmsetup if the custom.config file - is missing, but instead display a pop-up dialog with an error message. - (Lucasz Zalewski) - -- Remove redundant GenericName from gdmsetup.desktop. (Brian Cameron) - -- Fixes so code compiles with c99 compilers. (Jens Granseuer) - -- Translation updates (Djihed Afifi, Clytie Siddall) - -2.17.5 Stuff: - -- No longer close file descripters in forked process which - shows dialog boxes since this causes the dialogs to not - display any text. (Brian Cameron) - -- Now GDM will recognize when the system default language - has changed and will display new GUI's with the new - default language. By default the /var/sysconfig/i18n - file is assumed to have the language defined in LANG=foo - format. The --with-lang-file configure option may be - needed to specify a different system language configuration - file. On Solaris, for example, it would be - /etc/default/init. (Ray Strode and Takao Fujiwara) - -- Remove filter_watch after it is called for the first time. - This filter is used to start the at_spi_registryd, but - after it is started there is no need to listen to the - propery any more. (Li Yuan) - -- Further improvements to gdmsetup to improve usability. - (Lukasz Zalewski) - -- No longer hardcode invisible_char property in glade files, - instead realy on GTK+ default. (Vitaliy Ischenko) - -- Fix so that the userlist is hidden properly when there - are no users. (Brian Cameron) - -- Fixes for compiling with gcc 2.95. (Jens Granseuer) - -- Translation updates (Djihed Afifi, Raivis Dejus, - Theppitak Karoonboonyanan, Gabor Kelemen, David Lodge, - Jovan Naumovski, Amitakhya Phukan, Danilo \305\240egan, - Francisco Javier F. Serrador, Ilkka Tuohela, Matic Zgur) - -2.17.4 Stuff: - -- Fix for a recently reported security issue that has ID - CVE-2006-6105. This fixes a problem where a user can - enter strings like "%08x" into the gdmchooser entry and - press the "Add" host button to print out memory contents. - This issue was introduced into GDM 2.13.0. - (Brian Cameron) - -- Improvements to gdmsetup, which now supports many new - features. Fixes feature request #334186 and bugs - #343206 and #347101. (Lukasz Zalewski) - -- No longer set XDG_SESSION_COOKIE if there is no cookie. - Fixes #383866. (William Jon McCann) - -- Now the key and dwell gestures start Orca instead of - Gnopernicus. Must use Orca v2.17.4 or later to work - with GDM. (Brian Cameron) - -- Translation updates (Kjartan Maraas, Daniel Nylander, - Francisco Javier F. Serrador, Ilkka Tuohela) - -2.17.3 Stuff: - -- Now all GDM GUI's are run as the gdm user. This change ensures - that all GDM GUI's can talk to the at-spi-registryd that is - running. This change involved making the forked slave talk - to the the GDM daemon so that the dialogs can be displayed. - The response from the dialog can be returned to the slave. - There are reports that this bug triggers GDK bug #376315 on - Linux when a11y is turned off. This will need to be fixed - before the next GDM stable release. Workaround is to turn - on a11y until this bug is fixed. (Leena Gunda and Srirama - Sharma) - -- gdmsetup has a new tooltip suggestion. (Calum Benson) - -- Now "Default System Session" is renamed to "Run Xclient - script" which is more accurately what this does. Use xterm - as fallback instead of xsm, since xsm is not available on all - Linux. Now zenity pop-up message is displayed when Xclient - script is not found. (Brian Cameron) - -- Fix for TryExec check in gdmsession to make sure that any - arguments are not passed to g_find_program_in_path since - this causes the function to say it is not executable. - (Brian Cameron) - -- Rename Panjabi to Punjabi. (Brian Cameron) - -- Translation updates (Josep Puigdemont i Casamaj\303\263, - Daniel Nylander) - -2.17.2 Stuff: - -- Add ConsoleKit support. This is a new feature and not tested. If you - find that GDM does not allow you to log in, try using the configure - option --with-console-kit=no to turn this feature off. This feature - turns on GDM notification of session open, close and lock events via - D-Bus. (William Jon McCann) - -- Added warnings when no themes are selected in "Random Theme Mode". - Disable the delete button on Random theme mode for the theme that - is selected in "single theme mode". (Lukasz Zalewski) - -- Fix custom lists so that focus does not leave the username/password - entry field. (Brian Cameron) - -- Add new languages to the locale list. (Peter Nugent) - -- Translation updates (Priit Laes, Christophe Merlet, Francisco Javier - F. Serrador, Alexander Shopov, Ilkka Tuohela) - -2.17.1 Stuff: - -- No longer crash if at-spi-registryd cannot be started. - (Ariel Rios) - -- Now support customcommands in GDM configuration so that sysadmins - can specify custom commands to appear in the GDM GUI (in addition - to reboot/shutdown/etc.). Refer to the comments in the GDM - configuration file and documentation for details. Also support - new QUERY_CUSTOM_CMD_LABELS and QUERY_CUSTOM_CMD_NO_RESTART_STATUS - gdmflexiserver commands. (Lukasz Zalewski) - -- Now support for "combo" style lists, and id values of "session" - and "language" are supported for displaying the session/language - lists as drop-down combos. (Brian Cameron). For example: - - <item type="list" id="language" combo="true"> - <pos x="25" y="10" height="40" width="300"/> - </item> - <item type="list" id="session" combo="true"> - <pos x="50" y="10" height="40" width="300"/> - </item> - -- Now OK/Start Again buttons are sensitive/insensitive in a more - sensible way for both gdmlogin and gdmgreeter (if GTK style buttons - are used in gdmgreeter). (Brian Cameron) - -- Face Browser widget and background rectangle (for gdmgreeter) - is not shown if there are no users to display. (Brian Cameron) - -- Help button now enabled in gdmphotosetup. (Matthias Clasen) - -- Fix so that if timed user script returns an invalid user that - timed login is not turned on. (Andrew) - -- Fix bug that was causing %t to be expanded improperly when - used in the timed login label. (Brian Cameron) - -- Set authdir to NULL after freeing to avoid accessing an invalid - pointer. Fixes bug #359831. (Amnon Aaronsohn) - -- Introduce altfile[n] property to cater for alternative image file - definition in gdmgreeter themes. (Erwann Chenede) - -- Leaks fixed. (Kjartan Maraas) - -- Documentation improvements. (Malcolm Parsons) - -- Build improvements. (Brian Cameron) - -- Translation updates (Dwayne Bailey, Luca Ferretti, Satoru SATOH, Jens Seidel, - Ilkka Tuohela) - -2.17.0 Stuff: - -- Now when GDM_ADD_MODULES is set, GDM will launch at-spi-registryd. - (Ariel Rios) - -- New SupportAutomount option which, when turned on, changes the - way that GDM accesses the user's $HOME/.dmrc file so that - automounted $HOME directories can be configured to work even - when the automounter is not started with the --ghost option. - (Jerzy Borkowski) - -- Fix so that if timed login script returns an invalid user, - timed login is not turned on. Fix for bug #340148. - (Andrew - andrewz@springsrescuemission.org). - -- Fix for bug #352838, avoid crashing by moving call to get - GDM_KEY_SYSTEM_MENU until after authentication check. - (Frederic Crozat) - -- Use g_markup_printf_escaped so gdmsetup better handles - description strings that contains things similar to a tag - like an email address. Fixes bug #357998. (Matthias - Clasen) - -- Fix gdmsetup so that the window manager close button works - as the Close button in the dialog. (Matthias Clasen) - -- Add g_type_init() to gdmflexiserver since this is needed - for -a (authentication) code to work. (Brian Cameron) - -- Set authdir to NULL after freeing to avoid accessing an - invalid pointer. Fix for bug #359831. (Amnon Aaronsohn) - -- Memory leaks fixed. (Kjartan Maraas) - -- Translation updates (Abel Cheung, Yair Hershkovitz, - Raphael Higino, Priit Laes, \303\205smund Skj\303\246veland, - Ivar Smolin) - -2.16.6 Stuff: - -- The GDM configuration option daemon/PidFile is now deprecated and - GDM now always uses /var/run/gdm.pid. The location can be configured - at compile time with the configure --with-pid-file option. This - fixes bug #162849. (William Jon McCann) - -- Now "Configure GDM" menu choice is not available when accessibility is - turned on since running gdmsetup in this configuration causes GDM to - hang. Until the hanging bug is fixed, it's better to not allow the - user to get into this situation. (Brian Cameron) - -- Fix so will compile with HURD. (Brian Cameron) - -- Better fix for not showing the face browser if the userlist is empty. - (Ludwig Nussel) - -- Add ATK label for gdmgreeter entry field. (David Zeuthen) - -- Fix XDMCP send forward query so it works for IPv6. - (Ludwig Nussel) - -- Fix check so language combo style works. (Simon) - -- Fix strcpy so source and destination do not overlap. Fixes bug - #424299. (Ray Strode) - -- Remove gnome glade references since GNOME does not use libglade anymore. - (Kristof Vansant) - -- Fix comparison with string literal in gdmdynamic. (Hans Petter Jansson) - -- Translation updates (Amitakhya Phukan, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, - Hendrik Richter) - -2.16.5 Stuff: - -- Fix so we only hide userlist if there is one. - -- Translation updates (Subhransu Behera, Gabor Kelemen, - Ani Peter, Amitakhya Phukan, Danilo \305\240egan, - Tyronne Wickramaratne, Matic Zgur) - -2.16.4 Stuff: - -- Fix for a recently reported security issue that has ID - CVE-2006-6105. This fixes a problem where a user can - enter strings like "%08x" into the gdmchooser "Add"j - host button and print out memory. (Brian Cameron) - -- Fix for TryExec check in gdmsession to make sure that any - arguments are not passed to g_find_program_in_path since - this causes the function to say it is not executable. - (Brian Cameron) - -- Translation updates (Runa Bhattacharjee, Josep Puigdemont - i Casamaj\303\263, Laurent Dhima, I. Felix, David Lodge, - Ani Peter, Rajesh Ranjan, Clytie Siddall, Vincent van - Adrighem) - -2.16.3 Stuff: - -- Now support altfile[n] propery to cater for alternative - image file definition. - -- Fix custom lists so that focus does not ever leave the - username/password entry field. - -- Update to make casting more clear in PAM logic. This fixes a - bug where the Kerberos PAM module was sending multiple error - messages and GDM was not processing them properly. - (Brian Cameron) - -- Add X_EXTRA_LIBS and X_LIBS to utils/Makefile when building - gdm-dmx-reconnect-proxy to fix bug #368808. - -- Translation updates (Djihed Afifi, Wouter Bolsterlee, Luca - Ferretti, Pema Geyleg, Priit Laes, Duarte Loreto, Christophe - Merlet, Jovan Naumovski, Daniel Nylander, Ankit Patel, Ignacio - Casal Quinteiro, Satoru SATOH, Francisco Javier F. Serrador, - Alexander Shopov, Ilkka Tuohela) - -2.16.2 Stuff: - -- Now support for "combo" style lists, and id values of "session" - and "language" are supported for displaying the session/language - lists as drop-down combos. (Brian Cameron). For example: - - <item type="list" id="language" combo="true"> - <pos x="25" y="10" height="40" width="300"/> - </item> - <item type="list" id="session" combo="true"> - <pos x="50" y="10" height="40" width="300"/> - </item> - -- Now OK/Start Again buttons are sensitive/insensitive in a more - sensible way for both gdmlogin and gdmgreeter (if GTK style buttons - are used in gdmgreeter). (Brian Cameron) - -- Face Browser widget and background rectangle (for gdmgreeter) - is not shown if there are no users to display. (Brian Cameron) - -- Help button now enabled in gdmphotosetup. (Matthias Clasen) - -- Fix so that if timed user script returns an invalid user that - timed login is not turned on. (Andrew) - -- Fix bug that was causing %t to be expanded improperly when - used in the timed login label. (Brian Cameron) - -- Set authdir to NULL after freeing to avoid accessing an invalid - pointer. Fixes bug #359831. (Amnon Aaronsohn) - -- Leaks fixed. (Kjartan Maraas) - -- Translation updates (Abel Cheung, Priit Laes, Daniel Nylander) - -2.16.1 Stuff: - -- Use g_markup_printf_escaped so gdmsetup better handles - description strings that contains things similar to a tag - like an email address. Fixes bug #357998. (Matthias - Clasen) - -- Fix gdmsetup so that the window manager close button works - as the Close button in the dialog. (Matthias Clasen) - -- Fix for bug #352838, avoid crashing by moving call to get - GDM_KEY_SYSTEM_MENU until after authentication check. - (Frederic Crozat) - -- Add g_type_init() to gdmflexiserver since this is needed - for -a (authentication) code to work. (Brian Cameron) - -- Translation updates (Rahul Bhalerao, Runa Bhattacharjee, - Alessio Frusciante, Priit Laes, David Lodge, - \303\205smund Skj\303\246veland) - -2.16.0 Stuff: - -- Minor improvements to SDTLOGIN logic, used on Solaris to drop the - Xserver to user permissions for added security. - -- Translation updates (Subhransu Behera, \305\275ygimantas Beru\304\215ka, - Runa Bhattacharjee, Stanislav Brabec, Abel Cheung, Theppitak - Karoonboonyanan, Gabor Kelemen, Duarte Loreto, Jordi Mallach, Jovan - Naumovski, Roozbeh Pournader, Josep Puigdemont i Casamaj\303\263, - Rajesh Ranjan, Hendrik Richter, Danilo \305\240egan, Mugurel Tudor, - Funda Wang, Matic \305\275gur) - -- Highlights from the 2.15 release cycle. GDM was enhanced to use - giochannel for communication between the daemon and slaves and goption - instead of popt. gdmsetup startup performance improved, and the - "Options" button usability has been further improved. The following - bugs were fixed. - 327530 - Ensure login window always has focus. - 341619 - No longer save "Failsafe" sessions as user's default login. - -2.15.10 Stuff: - -- Now gdmlogin centers cursor in the GUI to ensure that the login - window always has focus. Fixes bug 327530. - -- Translation updates (Subhransu Behera, Rahul Bhalerao, Wouter - Bolsterlee, Maxim Dziumanenko, Artur Flinta, Leonid Kanter, - Gabor Kelemen, Priit Laes, Ani Peter, Hendrik Richter, Satoru - SATOH, Funda Wang - -2.15.9 Stuff: - -- The iochannel fix in 2.15.8 broke the face browser when using - gdmgreeter. Now fixed. (Ray Strode) - -- Fix so that focus never leaves the user/password entry when using - the gdmgreeter Options button. The previous fixes for this didn't - take into account the situation where the user pops up the menu, - but doesn't select an option. (Brian Cameron) - -- Fix error message that gets printed when you try to run GDM - daemon as a non-root user. (Brian Cameron) - -- The configure script now supports the Xserver installed in - /usr/bin/Xorg. (Ray Strode) - -- Remove calls to syslog/malloc that are called from inside signal - handlers, since they are not safe. (Ray Strode) - -- Improved commands in GDM configuration files. (Brian Cameron) - -- Translation updates (Subhransu Behera, Rahul Bhalerao, Inaki Larranaga, - Jovan Naumovski, Ankit Patel, Ani Peter) - -2.15.8 Stuff: - -- Fix to bugs causing gdmchooser to core dump when started. - (Brian Cameron) - -- Translation updates (Pawan Chitrakar, Christophe Merlet, - Francisco Javier F. Serrador) - -2.15.7 Stuff: - -- Now GDM does not save Failsafe GNOME or Failsafe Xterm as the - user's default session, so the user does not lose their - default setting when using Failsafe (bug #341619). - (Brian Cameron) - -- Updated GDM's slave/daemon message handling so it uses - giochannel internal buffering. This should prevent messages - from getting lost. (Ray Strode) - -- Performance improvements to gdmsetup start-up. (Ray Strode) - -- Fix for compiling with GCC 2.95. (Jens Granseuer) - -- Translation updates (Beno\303\256t Dejean, Christophe Merlet, - Lukas Novotny, Ahmad Riza H Nst, Kostas Papadimas, Hendrik - Richter) - -2.15.6 Stuff: - -- Timed Login message fixed so it works when TimedLogin is set to a - piped script. - -- Fix decoding of suspend command so it works. - -- Make sure that focus is returned to entry after dialogs are launched - from the new Options button. - -- NoHost icon updated to use official GNOME logo. New default face - image with a facelift. - -- Scrolling regions in gdmsetup User tab are now scrollable - vertically, improving UI experience. gdmsetup now generates a - proper error message and fails when it can't find the custom - configuration file. - -- Translation updates (Runa Bhattacharjee, Raivis Dejus, I. Felix, - Yair Hershkovitz, Inaki Larranaga, Chao-Hsiung Liao, Dukas Novotny, - Daniel Nylander, Rajesh Ranjan, Hendrick Richter, Ilkka Tuohela) - -2.15.5 Stuff: - -- Correction to autologin PAM service name so automatic login works. - (Brian Cameron) - -- Fix compiler warnings that were causing core dumping issues on - some platforms (Brian Cameron) - -- Translation updates (Josep Puigdemont Casamaj\303\263, - Changwoo Ryu) - -2.15.4 Stuff: - -- Correction for serious security issue where the user can enter the - GDM configuration GUI with a user password when the Face Browser - is enabled. Refer to bugzilla.gnome.org bug #343476 (Brian - Cameron) This issue impacts all versions of GDM 2.8.0.0-2.8.0.7, - 2.14.0-2.14.7, and 2.15.0-2.15.3. This issue was reported to - vendor-sec one week ago and has ID #CVE-2006-2452. - -- Fixed bug where when the "Include All" button is modified in the - Users tab, the Automatic/Timed login dropdown lists update - properly. (Brian Cameron) - -- Now gdmflexiserver calls gdmcomm_check with FALSE so it will not - pop up a dialog. gdmflexiserver can be run with the --command - option which can be used when the user does not have permission to - a DISPLAY, so trying to show a dialog was causing gdmflexiserver - to core dump when the check failed. (Brian Cameron) - -- Added gestures to the AccessKeyMouseEvents configuration file - so that users can access more accessibility features using - dwell gestures. (Brian Cameron) - -- Now Welcome message is saved in the configuration file in - UTF-8 format for better readibility. (Frederic Peters) - -- The GDM daemon once again supports the -nodaemon option. - (Ray Strode) - -- Improvements to Face Browser. Now do not ask the user to - re-enter username on password failure. The cancel button - must now be used to unselect a user. (Brian Cameron) - -- Now when GTK+ style buttons are used in gdmgreeter themes, - focus always returns to the entry field after clicking on - a button. (Brian Cameron) - -- Now per-display configuration works for greeter/SystemMenu - and greeter/ChooserButton keys. (Brian Cameron) - -- "make install" no longer fails if chown fails. (Brian - Cameron) - -- If authdir is the fallback dir. If not, and GDM cannot - access the user's $HOME directory, then try and use the - fallback directory. (Arjan Timmerman) - -- Translation updates (Pema Geyleg, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan, - Gabor Kelemen, Priit Laes, Kjartan Maraas, Ankit Patel, - Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, Francisco Javier F. Serrador, - Clytie Siddall, Alexander Shopov, Vincent van Adrighem) - -2.15.3 Stuff: - -- No longer use popt in favor of glib's GOption command line parsing. - Note that this removes the single-dash options GDM used to support - (such as the gdm -nodaemon option which is now --nodaemon) which - were originally supported so GDM would be more like XDM. Users who - depend on the single dash options will need to change to use the - non-deprecated double-dash options. (Christian Kirbach) - -- Fix bug that was causing ShowGnomeFailsafeSession and - ShowGnomeXtermSession configuration values to not work. (Brian - Cameron) - -- Now add gdm-ssh-session to distribution tarball, and fix the - ssh-session.desktop file so that it sets the right TryExec - value even if --libexecdir isn't passed into configure. - (Brian Cameron) - -- Use ngettext in gui/gdmcommon.c for building the Timed Login - message. (Benoit Dejean) - -- Translation updates (Chao-Hsiung Liao, Gora Mohanty, Ankit Patel) - -2.15.2 Stuff: - -- Correct build to include translation files. - -- Fix layout of new buttons in gdmgreeter themes. - -- Translation updates (Alexander Shopov) - -2.15.1 Stuff: - -- Correct double free that was causing a core dump in the last release. - (Joe Marcus Clark) - -- Improvements to signal handling, fixing problem where GDM slave can - hang on read. Fixes bug #336549. (Ed Catmur, Brian Cameron) - -- "Start Over" string changed to "Start Again" after another round of - UI review (Brian Cameron, Calum Benson) - -- Better configure support for FreeBSD. Now the default configuration - should be better integrated with kernel/system interfaces. (Joe - Marcus Clark) - -- Fix security/AllowRemoteAutoLogin and fix SuspendCommand configuration - so it honors SystemMenu. (Brian Cameron) - -- Correct installation of gdm-ssh-session and now the desktop file is - translated. (Brian Cameron) - -- Correct invocation of PreFetch, when enabled, so it only executes - once. (Brian Cameron) - -- Translation updates (Josep Puigdemont Casamaj\303\263, Beno\303\256t - Dejean, Pema Geyleg, Inaki Larranaga, Daniel Nylander, Ignacio Casal - Quinteiro, Francisco Javier F. Serrador, Alexander Shopov, Ilkka - Tuohela, Funda Wang) - -2.15.1 stuff: - -- 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) - -2.14.12 stuff: - -- The GDM configuration option daemon/PidFile is now deprecated and - GDM now always uses /var/run/gdm.pid. The location can be configured - at compile time with the configure --with-pid-file option. This - fixes bug #162849. (William Jon McCann) - -- Fix strcpy so source and destination do not overlap. Fixes bug - #424299. (Ray Strode) - -- Remove gnome glade references since GNOME does not use libglade anymore. - (Kristof Vansant) - -- Fix comparison with string literal in gdmdynamic. (Hans Petter Jansson) - -2.14.11 stuff: - -- Fix for a recently reported security issue that has ID - CVE-2006-6105. This fixes a problem where a user can - enter strings like "%08x" into the gdmchooser "Add"j - host button and print out memory. (Brian Cameron) - -- Set authdir to NULL after freeing to avoid accessing an invalid - pointer. Fixes bug #359831. (Amnon Aaronsohn) - -- Fix custom lists so that focus does not ever leave the - username/password entry field. (Brian Cameron) - -- Remove calls to syslog/malloc that are called from inside signal - handlers, since they are not safe. (Ray Strode) - -- The configure script now supports the Xserver installed in - /usr/bin/Xorg. (Ray Strode) - -- Fix error message that gets printed when you run GDM - as non-root user. (Brian Cameron) - -2.14.10 stuff: - -- Fix so that GDM does not save the Failsafe GNOME or Xterm - session as the user's default. (Brian Cameron) - -- Fix gdmchooser crash issue. (Brian Cameron) - -- Performance tunings for gdmsetup startup. (Ray Strode) - -- Fix decoding of suspend message in the daemon so the suspend - command works. (Philippe Troin) - -- Fix timed login message so it works when TimedLogin is set to use - a piped script (Brian Cameron) - -- Make sure focus is returned to the entry field when using the - "Options" button. (Brian Cameron) - -- Fix issue causes gdmsetup to fail improperly when the custom - configuration file cannot be found. (Brian Cameron) - -- The nohost icon has been updated to use official GNOME logo, - nobody icon has been given a facelist. (Diana Fong) - -- Translation updates (\305\275ygimantas Beru\304\215ka, - Josep Puigdemont Casamaj\303\263, Raivis Dejus, Yair - Hershkovitz, Christophe Merlet, Lukas Novotny, Hendrik - Richter) - -2.14.9 stuff: - -- Correction to autologin PAM service name so automatic login works. - (Brian Cameron) - -- Fix compiler warnings that were causing core dumping issues on - some platforms (Brian Cameron) - -- Translation updates (Josep Puigdemont Casamaj\303\263) - -2.14.8 stuff: - -- Correction for serious security issue where the user can enter the - GDM configuration GUI with a user password when the Face Browser - is enabled. Refer to bugzilla.gnome.org bug #343476 and - CVE-2006-2452. (Brian Cameron) - -- Fixed bug where when the "Include All" button is modified in the - Users tab, the Automatic/Timed login dropdown lists update - properly. (Brian Cameron) - -- Now gdmflexiserver calls gdmcomm_check with FALSE so it will not - pop up a dialog. gdmflexiserver can be run with the --command - option which can be used when the user does not have permission to - a DISPLAY, so trying to show a dialog was causing gdmflexiserver - to core dump when the check failed. (Brian Cameron) - -- Added gestures to the AccessKeyMouseEvents configuration file - so that users can access more accessibility features using - dwell gestures. (Brian Cameron) - -- Translation updates (Laurent Dhima, Pema Geyleg, Theppitak - Karoonboonyanan, Gabor Kelemen, Ahmad Riza H Nst, Vincent - van Adrighem) - -2.14.7 stuff: - -- Correct build/install issues with gdm-ssh-session and the desktop - file. (Brian Cameron) - -- Fix bug that was causing the greeter/ShowGnomeFailsafeSession and - ShowGnomeXtermSession configuration values to not work. (Brian - Cameron) - -- Fix gdmgreeter so the entry field always has focus after a button - press when using real GTK+ buttons in the theme. (Brian Cameron) - -- Now per-display configuration works with the greeter/SystemMenu and - greeter/ChooserButton keys. (Brian Cameron) - -- Corrected a problem with GDM not using the fallback directory when - it cannot access the user's $HOME directory. (Arjan Timmerman) - -- "make install" no longer fails if user cannot run chown. - (Brian Cameron) - -- Translation updates (Takeshi AIHANA, Rhys Jones, Priit Laes, - Chao-Hsiung Liao, Gora Mohanty, Daniel Nylander, Kostas - Papadimas, Ankit Patel, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, Francisco - Javier F. Serrador, Alexander Shopov, Clytie Siddall, Ilkka - Tuohela, Vincent van Adrighem, Funda Wang) - -2.14.6 stuff: - -- Backporting some useful features from 2.15 to 2.14. Per-display - configuration and new gdmgreeter theming options (real GTK+ buttons, - pam-error-logo, and "startagain" stock label is displayed as "Cancel". - Note that the default themes shipped with GDM 2.14 do not use these - features, but this patch means newer themes made with 2.15 should now - work with this version of 2.14 and above. No strings were changed due - to this change. (Brian Cameron, Erwann Chenede) - -- Improvements to signal handling, fixing problem where GDM slave can - hang on read. Fixes bug #336549. (Ed Catmur, Brian Cameron) - -- Better configure support for FreeBSD. Now the default configuration - should be better integrated with kernel/system interfaces. (Joe - Marcus Clark) - -- Fix security/AllowRemoteAutoLogin and fix SuspendCommand configuration - so it honors SystemMenu. (Brian Cameron) - -- Correct installation of gdm-ssh-session and now the desktop file is - translated. (Brian Cameron) - -- Correct invocation of PreFetch, when enabled, so it only executes - once. (Brian Cameron) - -- Translation updates (Josep Puigdemont Casamaj\303\263, Beno\303\256t - Dejean, Pema Geyleg, Inaki Larranaga, Daniel Nylander, Ignacio Casal - Quinteiro, Francisco Javier F. Serrador, Alexander Shopov, Ilkka - Tuohela, Funda Wang) - -2.14.5 stuff: - -- Explicitely adjust the effective GID before running the child session - program to avoid remaining with high privileges. Fixes bug #340347. - (Julio M. Merino Vidal) - -- Updated config/gettextfoo.h to reflect current strings for translation. - Fixes bug #340017. (Brian Cameron) - -- Updated comments in GDM configuration files (Brian Cameron) - -- Translation updates (Takeshi AIHANA, Josep Puigdemont Casamaj\303\263, - Artur Flinta, Priit Laes, Chao-Hsiung Liao, Lukas Novotny, Daniel - Nylander, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, Francisco Javier F. Serrador, - Alexander Shopov, Funda Wang) - -2.14.4 stuff: - -- Backing out LINGUAS change which is only for the 2.15 release. - -- Translation updates (Josep Puigdemont Casamaj\303\263, Daniel Nylander, - Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, Alexander Shopov) - -2.14.3 stuff: - -- Fixed bug where gdmchooser was ignoring hosts passed in on the command line. - Now gdmchooser works properly when BROADCAST is set to false. (Brian - Cameron, Tiago Vignatti) - -- Marked strings as translatable and fix gdmsetup.desktop file so it is - translated. (Vincent Fretin) - -- Fix to conform to C89 compilers. (Jens Granseuer) - -- Translation updates (Josep Puigdemont Casamaj\303\263, Artur Flinta, - Chao-Hsiung Liao, Kjartan Maraas, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, Francisco Javier - F. Serrador, Funda Wang) - -2.14.2 stuff: - -- Now include gui/gdmthemetester.in in the distribution. It being missing - was causing the module to fail to compile. (Brian Cameron) - -- Fix to the BROADCAST key in gdmchooser so it should now work. (Brian - Cameron, kudos to Tiago Vignatti) - -- Further cleanups to Addresses CVE-2006-1057. (Hans Petter Jansson, - Ray Strode) - -- Path and RootPath now do not contain /usr/bin or /bin more than once. - (Brian Cameron) - -- Translation updates (Takeshi AIHANA, \305\275ygimantas Beru\304\215ka, - Laurent Dhima, Pema Geyleg, Lukas Novotny) - -2.14.1 stuff: - -- The sockets connection between the slaves and the GDM daemon is now - better managed to better ensure that sockets are never left open. - This work also makes gdmsetup start faster. (Brian Cameron) - -- Corrected bug that causes a core dump when you click on gdmgreeter - fields that have an id. (Brian Cameron) - -- Add new GdmXserverTimeout configuration setting so that the length of - time GDM waits for the Xserver to start can be tuned, so GDM better - works with Xservers that require more than 10 seconds to start. - (Emilie) - -- The happygnome and happygnome-list gdmgreeter themes now use the - official logo. (Brian Cameron) - -- Now GDM configure supports --with-sysconfsubdir so that GDM's - configuration directory can be configured to not have "/gdm" appended - to the end. (Julio M. Merino Vidal) - -- Fix for ensuring .ICEauthority file has proper ownership/permissions. - Addresses CVE-2006-1057. (Hans Petter Jansson) - -- Fix "Show Actions Menu" section in gdmsetup so it appears when both - "Plain" and "Themed" style is chosen. (Brian Cameron, Dennis - Cranston) - -- Now use LINGUAS procedure for defining languages. (Michiel Sikkes) - -- Now Xsession script uses "$@" instead of "$1" so it is possible to - pass arguments with the command to run. (Brian Cameron) - -- Add Trusted Solraris support. (Niall Power) - -- One line fix to Solaris auditing logic that fixes a bug causing - authentication to fail when auditing is turned on. (Brian Cameron) - -- Fixes to compile with C99 and fixes to compile under NetBSD. - Remove EXPANDED_* variables from the configure. (Julio M. Merino - Vidal) - -- Translation updates (\305\275ygimantas Beru\304\215ka, Beno\303\256t - Dejean, Laurent Dhima, Maxim Dziumanenko, Alessio Frusciante, Rhys - Jones, Raphael Higino, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan, Gabor Kelmen, - Priit Laes, Jordi Mallach, Kjartan Maraas, Daniel Nylander, Kostas - Papdimas, Guilherme de S. Pastore, Ankit Patel, Ignacio Casal - Quinteiro, Hendrik Richter, Jens Seidel, Francisco Javier F. Serrador, - Alexander Shopov, Clytie Siddall, Ilkka Tuohela, Vincent van Adrighem, - Tommi Vainikaninen) - -2.14.0 stuff: - -- Now GDM will update the actual custom configuration file used by - the daemon, so if gdm.conf is being used by the daemon, it will - also be edited by gdmsetup. - -- Now the Options menu will appear below the button if there is room, - and above the button otherwise. Previously it always appeared above, - even if there was no room. - -- Fix sound-on-login-success and sound-on-login-failure configuration - options so they are honored. Previously the sounds were playing even - if set to false. - -- Translation updates (Stanislav Brabec, Beno\303\256t Dejean, - Laurent Dhima, Priit Laes, Ole Laursen, Lukas Novotny, Daniel - Nylander, Rajest Ranjan, Alexander Shopov, Mugurel Tudor, Ilkka - Tuohela, Tommi Vainikainen, Vincent van Adrighem) - -2.13.0.10 stuff: - -- Now GDM will use the gdm.conf file if it exists as the custom.conf - file, so if the user has an old configuration file it will continue - to use that. (Brian Cameron) - -- Translation updates (Gabor Kelemen, Alexander Shopov) - -2.13.0.9 stuff: - -- New "gtk-theme" property can be used with the <greeter> tag in - gdmgreeter themes to specify a theme to control the appearance - of the F10/Options menu, the entry field, and other GTK+ - widget appearance. (Brian Cameron) - -- Core dumping problem with gdmgreeter should be fixed. (Brian - Cameron) - -- Some fixes to memory management. Memory leak issues resolved. - (Brian Cameron) - -- Correct error message that is printed when ServAuthDir isn't - owned by root:gdm. THis doesn't affect localization since - the string didn't change, just the value placed into the %s - sequence. (Brian Cameron) - -- Some C-99 compile issues resolved. (Jans Granseur) - -- Translation updates (Takeshi AIHANA, \305\275ygimantas - Beru\304\215ka, Raphael Higino, Inaki Larranaga, Rhys Jones, - Leonid Kanter, Priit Laes, Chao-Hsiung Liao, Duarte Loreto, - Kjartan Maraas, Kostas Papadimas, Satoru SATOH, Clytie - Siddall, Slobodan D. Sredojevic) - -2.13.0.8 stuff: - -- Because the main gdm.conf file is now read-only, contains distro - defaults and is not to be edited by the user, the file has been - moved to ${datadir}/gdm/defaults.conf (also factory-gdm.conf is - now %{datadir}/gdm/factory-defaults.conf). Users can use the - --with-defaults-conf to specify the location of this file. - Note that this means that distributions who want to preserve GDM - configuration set by those using older versions of GDM should use - preinstall/postinstall scripts to move the /etc/gdm/gdm.conf file - to /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom if the file has been edited (compare - against /etc/gdm/factory-gdm.conf to see if it has been modified). - "make install" for GDM does this if building from source. GDM - docs updated to reflect this change. - -- Lots of performance issues with the GDM sockets connection improved. - Now the code deals much better with failures, and better debug is - printed to the log. - -- Improved debug logic in GDM slaves so they use common functions. - -- Fix gdmdynamic so it supports up to hundreds of displays rather than - just a dozen or so. Now gdmdynamic backs off on sending sockets - commands to the server if it is being flooded with requests. Added - new "SERVER_BUSY" sockets command to support this feature and new - -t and -s command line options so the back-off behavior can be - tuned, if needed. - -- The config logic for the slaves will now return the compiled in - value if it fails to connect to the server for better behavior. - -- gdm-restart, gdm-safe-restart, gdm-stop, and gdm.spec now use - gdmflexiserver to get config data rather than trying to grep and - awk the config file directly. - -- Fix Xsession script so zenity calls work. - -- Lots of improvements to the GDM docs. Added section about "PAM" in - Security. Add comment that +xkb is needed for keyboard gesture - listeners (accessibility) to work. Also updated README and - README.install and moved some information that was in these files - to the docs. - -- Bump MAX_CONNECTIONS from 10 to 15 so that the daemon will accept - more connections from slaves. This improves performance when the - daemon is flooded with requests. - -- Fix include statement in daemon/gdmconfig.c to fix compile problem - on LFS. - -- Translation updates (Raphael Higino, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan, - Priit Laes, Kjartan Maraas, Lukas Novotny, Ankit Patel, - Josep Puigdemont i Casamaj\303\263, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, - Hendrik Richter, Francisco Javier F. Serrador, Clytie Siddall, - Slobodan D. Sredojevic, Ilkka Tuohela, Vincent van Adrighem, - Funda Wang, Adam Weinberger) - -2.13.0.7 stuff: - -- Turns out the core dumping issue that was supposed to be fixed in 2.13.0.6 - wasn't really fixed. Now it is. (Sebastien Bacher) - -- New "options_button" available for gdmgreeter themes. This pops up - the F10 menu which has all the choices found in the Disconnect, System, - Sessions, and Language buttons so that themes can have a cleaner - 1-button look. The default circles, happygnome, and happygnome-list - themes now use this style. (Sebastien Bacher, Brian Cameron) - -- Fix bugs that were causing User24HourClock=auto to not work properly. - Now GDM should properly grab the system time format when auto is set. - (Christopher Aillon) - -- Fix bug in PreSession script that was causing it to not properly set the - background color before starting user session. (Brian Cameron) - -- GDM docs now has a troubleshooting section. (Brian Cameron) - -- Make sure /usr/openwin/bin is in PATH on Solaris, since this is needed - for PreSession/PostSession scripts to find sessreg and other needed - X programs. (Brian Cameron) - -- String change of "XDMCP Chooser" to "Remote Login via XDMCP". - (Brian Cameron) - -- Minor tweaks to default/example gdmprefetchlist file so it works - better for GNOME 2.14 out of the box. (Brian Cameron) - -- Translation updates (Stanislav Brabec, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan, - Chao-Hsiung Liao, Kjartan Maraas, Lasse Bang Mikkelsen, Kostas Papadimas, - Ankit Patel, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, Alexander Shopov, Clytie Siddall, - Slobodan D. Sredojevic, Ilkka Tuohela, Vincent van Adrighem, - Adam Weinberger, Funda Wang) - -2.13.0.6 stuff: - -- The core dumping issue mentioned in the previous release note has been - corrected. IncludeAll and the Face Browser should no longer core dump. - (Sebastien Bacher) - -- Using "restart" instead of "reboot" in messages. (Brian Cameron) - -- Docs added for "Secure Remote" feature added in last release. (Dominique - Hazael-Massieux) - -- Translation updates (Kjartan Maraas, Lasse Bang Mikkelsen, Ankit Patel, - Ignacia Casal Quinteriro, Clytie Siddall, Ilkka Tuohela) - -2.13.0.5 stuff: - -Note: Some users have been complaining that GDM 2.13.0.4 core dumps when the - IncludeAll feature is turned on, and the face browser is also being used. - I can not recreate this problem on my machine, so this issue may still - exist on some platforms. - -- GDM now supports secure remote login which can be enabled by using - --enable-securelogin at configure time. (Dominique Hazael-Massieux) - -- Fixed gdmsetup so the Logo/Background file chooser does not generate assert - warnings and no longer will reset your logo/background to NULL. I think this - problem was causing occasional core dumping issues. Also cleaned up memory - management in gdmsetup a bit. (Brian Cameron) - -- Now SELinux initialization logic does not use setexeccon if - is_selinux_enabled returns -1. (Dan Walsh) - -- The prefetch logic that is enabled by using --with-prefetch was improved - and GDM will now install a default librarylist if the feature is enabled. - Now GDM will only launch the gdm_prefetch program the first time that a - greeter is displayed. Since this behavior is very specific to the needs - of prefetching libraries, the gdm.conf key changed from PostDisplayProgram - to PreFetchProgram. (Padraig O'Briain/Brian Cameron) - -- GDM no longer requires libgnome or libgnomeui at all. This should improve - GDM performance and make GDM more lightweight. (Jani Monoses) - -- GDM Daemon now uses the GDK_DISPLAY_XDISPLAY macro instead of the - GDK_DISPLAY macro since the GDK_DISPLAY macro causes the GDM daemon to - require the libgdk-x11 library to always be loaded into memory. Now it can - lazyload this library only when needed (when GDM daemon displays error GUI's - which only happens when GDM can't start up properly). This should improve - performance and make GDM more lightweight for the normal case where GDM does - start up. (Brian Cameron) - -- Minor cleanup of gdmsetup. (Dennis Cranston) - -- Caps lock and Shut down messages changed to be more consistant between - gdmlogin and gdmgreeter. Error message provided when session file is - invalid now tells you the name of the offending file. (Brian Cameron) - -- GDM docs given some attention, new "Security" and "Performance" sections and - a good bit of information added to the "Introduction" and "Accessibility" - sections. (Brian Cameron) - -- Translation updates (Takeshi AIHANA, Chao-Hsiung Liao, - Theppitak Karoonboonyanan, Kjartan Maraas, Ankit Patel, Josep Puigdemont, - Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, Francisco Javier F. Serrador, Clytie Siddall, - Alexander Sopov, Slobodan D. Sredojevic, Ilkka Tuohela, Vincent van Adrighem, - Adam Weinberger) - -2.13.0.4 stuff: - -Interface Changes: - -- This version of GDM handles its configuration files slighly differently. - Now users are not recommended to modify the installed gdm.conf file and - are instead encouraged to make changes to gdm.conf-custom. The gdmsetup - program now saves user configuration changes to the gdm.conf-custom file. - Configuration options specified in gdm.conf-custom file override the values - in the main gdm.conf file. - - 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 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. - (Brian Cameron) - -- 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. 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 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) - -Other Changes: - -- This release completes the internal redesign of GDM's configuration - system. Now all configuration information is read by the daemon and - accessed via the GDM sockets protocol. The GET_SERVER_LIST and - GET_SERVER_DETAILS sockets commands were added to support accessing the - [server-foo] sections of the configuration file via the sockets protocol. - (Brian Cameron) - -- Merged code for parsing character sequences in gdmgreeter labels and - the Welcome/RemoteWelcome keys, so now they are handled the same by both - gdmlogin and gdmgreeter. Now %d is used for display number and %s is the - system name (uname.sysname). The previously undocumented sequences are now - explained in the documentation. (Brian Cameron) - -- Fixed bug that caused TimedLogin/AutomaticLogin to be turned on if it had a - username value but TimedLoginEnable/AutomaticLoginEnable had a "false" - value. (Brian Cameron) - -- Fixed bug that caused the TimedLogin user to be logged in if the user - hit the "ENTER" key without entering a password. Mention in the GDM - documentation that if the user does not enter a username but just hits - the ENTER key while the login program is requesting the username, then - GDM will just login as the timed user. (Brian Cameron) - -- Removed libgnome as a GDM dependency and removed most libgnomeui - dependencies. Redesigning GDM's configuration allowed GDM to stop using - deprecated gnome_config interfaces, for example. (Brian Cameron) - -- Fixed a bug with keeping the sockets protocol open for multiple commands - that was included in the last release, and fixed memory handling issues - that was causing core dumping with gdmsetup in the previous release. - (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) - -- Corrected typos and grammar (Brian Cameron, Asmund Skjaeveland, Adam - Weinberger) - -- Translation updates (Takeshi AIHANA, \305\275ygimantas Beru\304\215ka, - Theppitak Karoonboonyanan, Kostas Papadimas, Ankit Patel, Ignacio Casal - Quinteiro, Francisco Javier F. Serrador, Clytie Siddall, Marcel Telka, Ilkka - tuohela, Funda Wang, Adam Weinberger) - -2.13.0.3 stuff: - -- Minor UI improvements to gdmsetup (Dennis Cranston, Calum Benson) - -- Removed libgnome dependencies for all GDM programs except gdmflexiserver and - gdmsetup. These should be fixed for the next release. (Jani Monoses, Brian - Cameron) - -- Now communications protocol used by client does not shut down after each - call, improves performance. (Brian Cameron) - -- More clear stability information about gdm.conf file in README (Brian - Cameron) - -- Translation updates (Takeshi AIHANA, \305\275ygimantas Beru\304\215ka, - Theppitak Karoonboonyanan, Kjartan Maraas, Christophe Merlet, Francisco - Javier F. Serrador, \303\205smund Skj\303\246veland, Alexander Shopov, Marcel - Telka, Miloslav Trmac, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, Adam Weinberger) - -2.13.0.2 stuff: - -- Further redesign of configuration parsing logic. Now all GDM slaves (except - gdmsetup) use the GET_CONFIG socket command to access configuration data. - This means all configuration parsing is now handled in one place, the daemon. - Improvements to the daemon configuration parsing so it correctly parses and - validates all parameters used by the slave programs. Also fix some compile - issues that were causing problems with certain configurations. (Brian - Cameron) - -- Improved the GET_CONFIG command so that you don't have to include the default - value (you can use "greeter/IncludeAll" instead of having to use - "greeter/IncludeAll=false". Also you can access keys that contain - translatable strings (e.g. "greeter/Welcome[cs]") via the GET_CONFIG command. - (Brian Cameron) - -- Changes to peeking VT freeness in 2.13.0.1 broke virtual terminal support on - BSD. This release corrects this problem. (Brian Cameron) - -- Correct Linux get VT logic so it returns the correct VT. (Frederic Crozat) - -- Now gdmlogin always uses GDK_RGB_DITHER_MAX when painting the background to - ensure a nice background regardless of X configuration (e.g. X in 16bpp - mode). (Frederic Crozat) - -- Now check for Xserver in prefix /usr. (J\303\274rg Billeter) - -- Fix configure for Darwin. (dmacks@netspace.org) - -- Fix compiler warnings. (Frederic Crozat, dmacks@netspace.org, Brian Cameron) - -- Ensure gnome.desktop and default.desktop have 644 perms. (Andrew Benton) - -- Translation updates (Takeshi AIHANA, \305\275ygimantas Beru\304\215ka, - Theppitak Karoonboonyanan, Priit Laes, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, Alexander - Shopov, Francisco Javier F. Serrador, Marcel Telka, Funda Wang, - Adam Weinberger) - -2.13.0.1 stuff: - -- Complete redesign of gdmsetup so it follows usability recommendation mockups - by Calum Benson. (Dennis Cranston, Calum Benson) - -- gdmsetup now supports drag-and-drop for new themes. (Dennis Cranston) - -- The chooser GUI has been HIGified. (Dennis Cranston) - -- Redesign of configuration parsing logic in the GDM daemon which simplifies - how the UPDATE_CONFIG and GET_CONFIG commands work, better encapsulates the - vicious-extensions logic, and cleans up the code. (Brian Cameron) - -- If slave does not respond to a SIGTERM, try a SIGKILL the second time. This - resolves a problem where GDM sometimes stops managing a display because it - just keeps waiting for the slave to die. See bug #113902. (Vaclav Smilauer) - -- GDM now uses VT_GETSTATE for peeking VT freeness (Samuel Thibault) - -- Now GDM warns correctly about caps lock if an alternate keymap is enabled. - kbGetState is used instead of XkbGetIndicator State. (Sebastien Bacher) - -- Fixed race condition where a variable used by the signal handlers was not - being set until after the signal handlers were setup. Now it is set before - avoiding a race. (Simon Bowden/Brian Cameron) - -- Now check for X server in prefix /usr. (J\303\274rg Billeter) - -- Check for XInput fixed in configure and add a check for libgen.h to avoid - compiler warnings. (Brian Cameron) - -- Updated check in configure for socklen_t so it includes sys/socket.h to - better support BSD platforms that define socklen_t there. - (dmacks@netspace.org) - -- Kurdish added to ALL_LINGUAS. (Erdal Ronahi) - -- Translation updates (Takeshi AIHANA, Dan Damian, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan, - Priit Laes, Chao-Hsiung Liao, Roozbeh Pournader, Erdal Ronahi, Francisco - Javier F. Serrador, Marcel Telka, Funda Wang, Adam Weinberger) - -2.13.0.0 stuff: - -- Fix problem with PostSession script not always being executed when user kills - the Xserver with ctrl-alt-backspace. Fixes bug #152906. (Jerry G. DeLapp) - -- No longer set tooltips for menu items in gdmlogin. These do not work with - accessibility and no GNOME programs use menu tooltips, it is not recommended. - (Brian Cameron) - -- Change the way the "OK" and "Cancel" buttons work so they are consistant. - Now the "Cancel" button in gdmlogin is active when the Username is requested - and just clears the field. This makes gdmlogin work like gdmgreeter. Now - make the buttons insensitive when the ok/enter/tab is pressed and make them - sensitive again when the greeter wants entry. This fixes a bug where the - greeter's memory could get corrupted by pressing "Cancel" after - authentication (which would only happen if the PostLogin script caused a long - enough delay to allow this to happen or perhaps on a really slow machine). - (Brian Cameron) - -- Correct reading of config file in gdmflexiserver. (Christiaan Welvaart) - -- GNOME HIG fixes for the Language, Session, and Message dialogs. (Dennis - Cranston) - -- Define SoundProgram to be /usr/bin/audioplay instead of /usr/bin/play on - Solaris. /usr/bin/play does not exist on Solaris. - -- Better /etc/default/login support on Solaris. Previously it supported only - PASSREQ. Now it supports PATH, SUPATH and CONSOLE (the same ones CDE login - supports). Added new PasswordRequired gdm.conf setting so that PASSREQ can - be controlled via gdm.conf as well. - -- Memory leaks fixed. (Steve Grubb/Brian Cameron) - -- Improvements to strings and docs (Adam Weinberger, Brian Cameron) - -- Translation updates (Takeshi AIHANA, Runa Bhattacharjee, Priit Laes, - Chao-Hsiung Liao, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, Vincent van Adrighem, Funda Wang, - Adam Weinberger) - -2.8.0.8 stuff: - -- Correction for serious security issue where the user can enter the - GDM configuration GUI with a user password when the Face Browser - is enabled. Refer to bugzilla.gnome.org bug #343476 and - CVE-2006-2452. (Brian Cameron) - -- Translation updates (Stanislav Brabec, Josep Puigdemont i - Casamaj\303\263, Abel Cheung, Priit Laes, Christophe Merlet, Clytie - Siddall, \303\205smund Skj\303\246veland, Tommi Vainikainen) - -2.8.0.7 stuff: - -- Changes to peeking VT freeness in 2.13.0.1 broke virtual terminal support on - BSD. This release corrects this problem. (Brian Cameron) - -- Correct Linux get VT logic so it returns the correct VT. (Frederic Crozat) - -- Now gdmlogin always uses GDK_RGB_DITHER_MAX when painting the background to - ensure a nice background regardless of X configuration (e.g. X in 16bpp - mode). (Frederic Crozat) - -- Now check for Xserver in prefix /usr. (J\303\274rg Billeter) - -- Fix configure for Darwin. (dmacks@netspace.org) - -- Fix compiler warnings. (Frederic Crozat, dmacks@netspace.org, Brian Cameron) - -- Ensure gnome.desktop and default.desktop have 644 perms. (Andrew Benton) - -- Translation updates (Takeshi AIHANA, Runa Bhattacharjee, Dan Damian, - Theppitak Karoonboonyanan, Inaki Larranaga, Priit Laes, Roozbeh Pournader, - Alexander Shopov, Marcel Telka, Miloslav Trmac) - -2.8.0.6 stuff: - -- Fix problem with PostSession script not always getting executed when user - kills the Xserver with ctrl-alt-backspace. This is caused because an - xioerror is generated when the clients are killed and this needs to be - ignored for the PostSession script to be processed. This problem tended not - to manifest in GDM 2.6 since the call to kill the clients was made earlier. - However, it was still a race condition in 2.6 and this fix ensures that the - slave will never exit too early. (Jerry G. DeLapp) - -- The "OK" and "Cancel" buttons in gdmlogin and gdmgreeter now work - consistantly. Now the gdmlogin "Cancel" button is active when the Username - is requested and pressing it just clears the field, so it works like - gdmgreeter. Also fixed a bug in gdmgreeter where a user could corrupt - gdmgreeter's memory by hitting cancel after authentication, which could only - happen if the PostLogin script caused a long enough delay to allow this to - happen. (Brian Cameron) - -- No longer set tooltips for menu items in gdmlogin. They are distracting and - do not work with accessibility. No GNOME programs use menu tooltips and it - is not recommend. (Brian Cameron) - -- If slave does not respond to a SIGTERM, try a SIGKILL the second time. This - resolves a problem where GDM sometimes stops managing a display because it - just keeps waiting for the slave to die. See bug #113902. (Vaclav Smilauer) - -- GDM now uses VT_GETSTATE for peeking VT freeness - -- Now GDM warns correctly about caps lock if an alternate keymap is enabled. - kbGetState is used instead of XkbGetIndicator State. (Sebastien Bacher) - -- Now set cursor and watch as soon as GTK+ is initialized and the configure - file read, which shortens the amount of time the backgrounds is Xserver - default grey. Cleaned up the code so that all programs use a common - function to set the background. (Brian Cameron) - -- Fix reading of config file in gdmflexiserver so it properly reads in the - available servers. (Christiaan Welvaart) - -- Fixed race condition where a variable used by the signal handlers was not - being set until after the signal handlers were setup. Now it is set before - avoiding a race. (Simon Bowden/Brian Cameron) - -- Define SoundProgram to be /usr/bin/autoplay on Solaris instead of - /usr/bin/play, since /usr/bin/autoplay doesn't exist on Solaris. - -- Check for XInput fixed in configure and add a check for libgen.h to avoid - compiler warnings. (Brian Cameron) - -- Updated check in configure for socklen_t so it includes sys/socket.h to - better support BSD platforms that define socklen_t there. - (dmacks@netspace.org) - -- No longer link vicious-extensions with the gesture listeners, since they - do not use vicious-extensions. - -- Translation updates (Takeshi AIHANA, Runa Bhattacharjee, Dan Damian, Maxim - Dziumanenko, Laurent Dhima, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan, Priit Laes, Inaki - Larranaga, Roozbeh Pournader, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, Christian Rose, Ivar - Smolin, Marcel Telka, Ilkka Tuohela, Miloslav Trmac) - -2.8.0.5 stuff: - -- gdmflexiserver supports --startnew option so that gdmflexiserver can be told - to not pop-up the dialog asking if the user wants to start a current session. - With this option it just always starts a new session. This allows running - gdmflexiserver from the screensaver, where the pop-up can't be interacted - with due to the nature of the screensaver. (Brian Cameron) - -- Now gdmflexiserver supports gnome-screensaver if available, then defaults to - xscreensaver. (William Jon McCann) - -- Bug corrected in dwellmouselistener which caused it to always fail to - recognize gestures. (Brian Cameron) - -- Added warning message if gdmgreeter theme supports face browser but does not - have pam-message defined. (Brian Cameron) - -- gdmsetup and gdmphotosetup now only map right/left mouse buttons to button1 - when running under GDM. When running as user, honor user defaults. (Brian - Cameron) - -- XdmcpFill() failure is now logged as debug, since this happens when the - client disconnects from the XDMCP server before the session was setup. - (Bastien Nocera) - -- gdmsetup fixed so when user modifies Include/Exclude list, the - automatic/timed dropdown lists are updated immediately instead of having to - stop and restart gdmsetup to see the users in the list. (Brian Cameron) - -- Correct illegal reference to build directory in installed .la files. - (Stanislav Brabec) - -- Removed test that causes needless syslog() message on Solaris when auditing - is turned off. New docs explaining how to setup autologin on Solaris. - (Brian Cameron) - -- Translation updates (Gabor Kelemen, Priit Laes, Kjartan Maraas, Ankit Patel, - Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, Hendrick Richter, Erdal Ronahi, Satoru SATOH, - Francisco Javier F. Serrador, Alexander Shopov, Clytie Siddall, Tommi - Vainikainen, Funda Wang, Vincent van Adrighem, Adam Weinberger) - -2.8.0.4 stuff: - -- Corrected syslog debugging so it works better. (Brian Cameron) - -- Minor fix for clean 64 bit compilation. (Brian Cameron) - -- Fix address of website in README (Tommi Vainikainen) - -- Translation updates (\305\275ygimantas Beru\304\215ka, Hendrik Brandt, Baris - Cicek, Maxim Dziumanenko, Artur Flinta, Raphael Higino, Gabor Kelemen, Priit - Laes, Chao-Hsiung Liao, Duarte Loreto, Jordi Mallach, Christophe Merlet, - Ankit Patel, Changwoo Ryu, Francisco Javier F. Serrador, Nickolay V. Shmyrev, - Clytie Siddall, Slobodan D. Sredojevic, Mugurel Tudor, Miloslav Trmac, - Vincent van Adrighem) - -2.8.0.3 stuff: - -- The GDM website has moved to a new location - http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/, and the GDM mail alias has moved from - gdm@sunsite.dk to gdm-list@gnome.org. README, and GDM docs updated with the - new information and corrected broken link to the GDM Theme section at - http://art.gnome.org/ (Brian Cameron) - -- Installation location of gdmphotosetup.desktop has moved from the deprecated - /usr/share/gnome/capplets to /usr/share/applications (Mark McLoughlin, Brian - Cameron) - -- Honor default session when logging in via autologin. (Hans Petter Jansson) - -- Removed spaces in locale name since it caused GDM to discard the locales. - (Frederic Crozat) - -- Added missing tooltips (Rodrigo Moya) - -- Corrected reading of configuration file in gdmflexiserver so it works. Fixes - corrupted Session selection dialog presented to user. (Brian Cameron) - -- Correct use-after-free with the dynamic session in the sessions list, - corrects tooltip corruption. (Joe Marcus Clarke) - -- Translation updates (Laurent Dhima, Raphael Higino, Rhys Jones, Gabor - Kelemen, Priit Laes, Kjartan Maraas, Kostas Papadimas, Ignacio Casal - Quinteiro, Francisco Javier F. Serrador, Alexander Shopov, Terance Sola, - Marcel Telka, Mugurel Tudor, Funda Wang - -2.8.0.2 stuff: - -- GDM now supports more dynamic configuration. The gdm daemon supports the - --config option which allows an alternative configuration file to be - supported. The --with-configdir configure option may also be used to specify - a system-wide configuration location so the gdm.conf file can be located on a - mounted directory. To support machine-specific configuration, an existing - %sysconfdir/gdm configuration file will override a system-wide configuration - file. Refer to the GDM documentation for more information. (Brian Cameron) - -- New configuration option AlwaysLoginCurrentSession which will automatically - switch the user to their previous session without asking. This feature is - turned off by default. (William Jon McCann) - -- Now Use24Clock setting support "auto" which will use the system default for - date/time formatting. (Tommi Vainikainen) - -- Better backwards compatibility support for Welcome and RemoteWelcome. If - using an old gdm.conf (older than 2.8.0.0) file that does not have settings - for DefaultWelcome and/or DefaultRemoteWelcome, GDM will now continue to work - as it did before 2.8.0.0. (Brian Cameron) - -- Usability improvements to gdmsetup. "Face Browser" tab renamed to "User". - Now tabs no longer have mnemonics, since this violates HIG. Fixed broken - sensitivity on the "Users" tab. Improved labels. (Brian Cameron) - -- Support HIG style button layout in gdmlogin. (William Jon McCann) - -- Use GTK+ themed icon stock_person before falling back to the DefaultFace. - (William Jon McCann) - -- Usability improvements to the face browser when using gdmgreeter, now the - background behind the userlist translucent. (William Jon McCann) - -- Usability improvements to gdmphotosetup, and now better follows HIG. - (William Jon McCann) - -- New selection of face browser images. (William Jon McCann) - -- No longer stat or read face images from remote home directories. (William - Jon McCann) - -- New gdmflexiserver command "GET_CONFIG_FILE" which will return the location - of the configuration file being used by the daemon. (Brian Cameron) - -- Now gdmflexiserver command "GET_CONFIG" works. Previously it only returned a - value if the value was set in the gdm.conf file. Now it returns compiled-in - default values if gdm.conf has no setting. (Brian Cameron) - -- Support DragonFly VT. (Joerg Sonnenberger) - -- GDM configure script now Supports TCP Wrappers on Solaris. (Brian Cameron) - -- Many string/grammar improvements. (Tommi Vainikainen, Brian Cameron) - -- Better C89 compiler support. (Jens Granseuer) - -- Translation updates (Hendrik Brandt, Nikos Charonitakis, Pawan Chitrakar, - Laurent Dhima, Raphael Higino, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan, Gabor Kelemen, - Priit Laes, Chao-Hsiung Liao, Kjartan Maraas, William Jon McCann, Ankit - Patel, Hendrik Richter, Francisco Javier F. Serrador, Alexander Shopov, - Clytie Siddall, Terance Sola, Marcel Telka, Miloslav Trmac, Tommi - Vainikainen, Funda Wang, Adam Weinberger, \305\275ygimantas Beru\304\215ka - -2.8.0.1 stuff: - -- This release fixes a nasty bug which was causing the /etc/gdm/Xsession file - to always use /bin/ksh. This caused problems on Linux, where it should be - /bin/sh. It now is only /bin/ksh on Solaris builds. (Brian Cameron) - -- seteuid/setegid logic in the GDM slave logic has been made more sane. This - was causing problems running GDM2 on NetBSD (refer to bug #301821). (Julio - M. Merino Vidal) - -- Correct "Delete Theme" button sensitivity in gdmsetup. (Andrew Case) - -- Minor correction to Solaris audit logic. (Gary Winiger) - -- Updated autogen.sh so it now works with automake > 1.4. - -- No longer use C99 features that do not work with gcc 2.95, specifically do - not declare variables except at the beginning of a block. (Jens Granseuer) - -- Corrected configure script so it works with pkgconfig 0.17.2. The new - pkgconfig broke the build on Solaris since it no longer allows the linker to - pull in libraries that are implicitely included. Now all libraries are - explicit. - -- References to libgnome removed from vicious-extensions, so it no longer - depends on libgnome. It now depends directly on i18n libraries. (Andrew - Case) - -- The gesture listeners now log debug messages to syslog instead of stdout, and - debug can now be turned on by setting the GDM_DEBUG_GESTURES environment - variable rather than needing to recompile with debug. This makes it much - easier to debug issues. (Brian Cameron) - -- Leaks fixed (Kjartan Maraas) - -- Corrections to docs (Andrew Case, Martin Petersen) - -- Translation updates (Kjartan Maraas, Miloslav Trmac, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, - Vincent van Adrighem, Francisco Javier F. Serrador, Gabor Kelemen, Theppitak - Karoonboonyanan, Martin Willemoes Hansen, Priit Laes, Adam Awinberger, Clytie - Siddall, Abel Cheung - -2.8.0.0 stuff: - -Interface Changes: - -- Now gdm, gdm-binary, gdmsetup are installed to /sbin and gdmchooser, - gdmgreeter, gdmlogin are installed to /libexec. This better conforms to UNIX - recommend installation locations. The gdmconfig and gdmXnest symlinks have - been removed since they were redundant. Distributions will need to modify - the way GDM programs are launched to reflect these changes. (Brian Cameron) - -- gdm.conf and GdmSetup now use the DefaultWelcome and DefaultRemoteWelcome - keys to specify if the default message should be used. Now the Welcome and - RemoteWelcome keys are empty by default. This is to avoid putting strings - that are translated in the gdm.conf file. Users that want to use a - non-default welcome string will need to ensure that DefaultWelcome and/or - DefaultRemoteWelcome are set to false. (Brian Cameron) - -- Now users to be included in the face browser need to be identified using the - gdm.conf "Include" configure option or the "Face Browser" tab in gdmsetup. - Previously, GDM parsed the system's password file for a complete list of - users and excluded userid's listed in the gdm.conf "Exclude" configure - option. This behavior did not work well on systems that use NIS for storing - passwords. This previous behavior may be turned back on by setting the - gdm.conf "IncludeAll" configure option to "true". (Brian Cameron) - -- xevie Xserver extension is now turned on by default on Linux for better a11y - support. - -- /bin/ksh is used in the GDM2 Xsession script on Solaris. Since this script - sources the user's $HOME/.profile, ksh works better if the profile has - bash/ksh style syntax. (Brian Cameron) - -Other Changes: - -- Fix so GDM works better on BSD and MacOS. Upon getting EOF on - socket/pipe/etc. G_IO_IN is always set and G_IO_HUP may not be set. - Therefore, if a length <= 0 is returned from read(), the socket is closed. - This prevents gdm2 from causing high CPU-load after logout. (Joe Marcus - Clarke) - -- Now support "session migration" using DMX. Refer to docs. (Mark McLoughlin) - -- Now support "Dynamic Xservers". Refer to docs. (Bob Terek) - -- The background colors used in gdmgreeter's Face Browser in can now be themed - using the <color iconcolor="" "labelcolor=""> syntax. The Face Browser now - shrinks so it is the same size as the treeview so extra white space isn't - shown. (Brian Cameron) - -- To better conform to the Usability Guide, gdmlogin and gdmgreeter now - supports an "OK" button which functions the same as hitting <Return> and a - Cancel button which allows the user to go back to the "Username" prompt - without having to enter an invalid password. (Brian Cameron) - -- The Face Browser usability has been improved. Now the user can select a - different face without having to enter an invalid password. Single-clicking - on the face takes the user to Password entry. The cancel button can be used - to get back to "Username" entry. (Brian Cameron) - -- GDM now ships with a collection of default faces installed to - datadir/pixmaps/faces. (Jaap A. Haitsma) - -- Support for ratio scaling of SVG images. (Vincent Untz) - -- Better left-handed support. Now right and left mouse buttons can be used in - all GDM windows/dialogs/etc. (Brian Cameron) - -- Now can use XDMCP from Xnest session. (Leena Gunda) - -- Now login success/failure sounds can be selected in gdm.conf or in the - Accessibility tab of gdmsetup. (Andrew Case, Mark McLoughlin) - -- Now "random theme" can be selected in the gdm.conf file or gdmsetup to allow - a different theme to be used for each login. (Andrew Case) - -- Now support background programs that are started after a timedelay and can be - restarted after a delay. Useful for running a screensaver at login time. - (Laurent Birtz) - -- gdmphotosetup has been improved so it now scales the face image to GDM's max - icon size before saving it. By default it looks in datadir/pixmaps/faces to - find face images. (Brian Cameron) - -- <Control>-U may now be used to clear the entry field. Now <Tab> works like - <Enter> in the login screen. (Brian Cameron) - -- gdmflexiserver now supports the GET_CONFIG command, so that other programs - can access the GDM configuration data in a stable fashion. This is useful - for other programs that might want to know what the system - suspend/halt/reboot command is or what the max icon size for creating gdm2 - face images, etc. (Brian Cameron) - -- Flexiserver commands are now sent as a single call to gdm_connection_write or - gdm_connection_printf rather than building commands and sending them in - pieces. Fixes bug #158799. (Brian Cameron) - -- Now gesture listener configuration files specify AT programs by full PATH - (default EXPANDED_BINDIR). This can be overridden via the --with-at-bindir - configure option. Since AT programs are launched as user gdm2, it is more - secure to not depend on PATH. (Brian Cameron) - -- Now use more sensible arguments for starting magnifier. (Bill Haneman) - -- gdmsetup Now has a separate tab for configuring the Face Browser, and for - configuring the Xserver. Now the checkboxes for turning on the Face Browser - and XDMCP are on the Security tab. The Face Browser and XDMCP tabs are - insensitive if they are not enabled. Now users can turn on/off Theme menu - choice for gdmlogin in the Accessibility tab. Can turn on/off debug in the - Security tab. RemoteWelcome is insensitive if XDMCP is not enabled. Better - mnemonics. (Brian Cameron, Andrew Case) - -- GDM now no longer uses deprecated widgets. The new file selection widget is - used (which no longer core dumps if you click on the sidebars). GtkComboBox - and GtkComboBoxEntry are used instead of GtkEntry and GtkOptionMenu (Brian - Cameron) - -- gdmthemetester now uses gdmwhich instead of which, so it works better on - Solaris. (Brian Cameron) - -- Timed login message is displayed in a separate label on gdmlogin which avoids - problems caused because different things were trying to use the same label - for status messages. Reorganized gdmlogin screen so it no longer should - resize as it is being used. (Brian Cameron) - -- The max size of the username/password entry is now set to PAM_MAX_RESP_SIZE - to allow long username/password entry. If PAM is not set, it is defaulted to - 256. (Brian Cameron, Ali Akcaagac) - -- Now dialogs that ask the user if they want to change their default - language/session have a Cancel button so the user can return to the login - screen. (Brian Cameron) - -- Theme save remembers where the last theme was installed and opens to that - location. Also fixed bug which was causing *.tar theme files to not install - properly. (Brian Cameron) - -- No longer rely on Xserver physical screen geometry which sometimes causes - text to be too big or too small. Now use gdk/pango functions to get root - window resources. (Ray Strode) - -- Better sorting of session names in the Session menu. (Ray Strode) - -- Remove gdm_debug from signal handlers since they aren't safe in signal - handlers (Mark McLoughlin) - -- Many strings, docs, README's have been improved. Better wording, better - grammar. (Brian Cameron, Seb Wills, Adam Weinberger, Abel Cheung, Kjartan - Maraas, Danilo \305\240egan, Nicholas Skehin) - -- Many translation improvements. Entries in the language list now show their - encoding so you no longer see what appear to be identical entries in the - language list. (Nikos Charonitakis, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan, Priit Laes, - David Lodge, Jordi Mallach, Kjartan Maraas, Gareth Owen, Ahmad Riza H Nst, - Kostas Papadimas, Francisco Javier F. Serrador, Danilo \305\240egan, - Alexander Shopov, \303\205smund Skj\303\246veland, Clytie Siddall, Miloslav - Trmac, Tommi Vainikainen, Funda Wang, Adam Weinberger) - -- gi18n.h is used instead of libgnome header files. (Christian - Manny - Calavera - Neumair) - -- Some cleanup (Brian Cameron, Mark McLoughlin) - -2.6.0.9 stuff: - -- Fix HaltCommand setting so it works again. - -- Change HaltCommand from "init 0" to "init 5" on Solaris. - -- Translation updates (Takeshi AIHANA, Adi Attar, Abel Cheung, - Pawan Chitrakar, Baris Cicek, Martin Willemoes Hansen, - Gabor Kelemen, Steve Murphy, Ahmad Riza H Nst, Christian Rose, - Francisco Javier F. Serrador, Miloslav Trmac, Vincent van - Adrighem, Adam Weinberger) - -2.6.0.8 stuff: - -- Enhanced a11y gesture listeners so they support XInput events - for better a11y support. (Bill Haneman). - -- Add STRUTS support to gdm2's window manager for better a11y - support (Bill Haneman). - -- Improved the way the user's default PATH is set up by configure - so it is set more sanely without redundant PATH's, and is more - careful about not putting symlinked X11 directories in the PATH. - Now can configure user's default directory via the --with-post-path - argument. (Brian Cameron). - -- New configuration option to disallow visible feedback in password - entry. (John Martinsson). - -- Fix width of "user name entry" to shrink to fit parent widget so - text does not run out-of-bounds. (Chookij Vanatham) - -- Restart slave process if XDMCP chooser is selected from flexi - server. (Leena Gunda) - -- Make default face obey the MaxIconWidth and MaxIconHeight - configuration settings. (Diego Gonzalez) - -- gdm2 slave now sources /etc/environment if it exists. (Vicent Berger) - -- Correct gdmsetup's tooltip to conform to GNOME HIG. (Sebastien Bacher) - -- Use ngettext for translation. (Christian Rose) - -- Set default font size to "Sans 12". (Erwann Chenede) - -- Set name of password entry for more friendly a11y (Erwann Chenede) - -- Mark "Remove Theme" for translation. (Balamurali Viswanathan) - -- Remove <span> tags from language display since they were causing - formatting issues for some users. (Glynn Foster) - -- Ensure LC_MESSAGES is set so the user's default language can be - displayed (Hidetoshi Tajima). - -- Specify font for username/password entry for gdm2 supplied themes. - (Alexander Kirillov) - -- Add Kinyarwanda and Armenian to language list. (Steve Murphy and - petrosyan@gmail.com) - -- Correct IPv6 logic so that it supports an IPv4 XDMCP request when - IPv6 is enabled. Fixed configure help for --enable-ipv6. - (Brian Cameron) - -- Set more sane Reboot/Halt/Shutdown commands on Solaris. (Brian - Cameron). - -- Correct the usage of IFS in the Init/PreSession/PostSession/Xsession - scripts so it works on Solaris. (Leena Gunda) - -- Support logindevperm on Solaris for automatic/timed login. - (Brian Cameron) - -- Swap Alt and Meta keys on Solaris. (Leena Gunda) - -- Correct IPv6 identification for Solaris. (Leena Gunda) - -- Cleanup. (Mark McLoughlin and Kjartan Marass) - -- Translation updates (Takeshi AIHANA, \305\275ygimantas - Beru\304\215ka, Abel Cheung, Baris Cicek, Dan Damian, - Laurent Dhima, Laszlo Dvornik, Maxim Dziumanenko, - Artur Flinta, Martin Willemoes Hansen, Raphael Higino, - Leonid Kanter, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan, Priit Laes, - David Lodge, Duarte Loreto, Jordi Mallach, Kjartan Maraas, - Christophe Merlet, Kostas Papadimas, Ankit Patel, - Hendrik Richter, Christian Rose, Changwoo Ryu, Danilo - \305\240egan, Francisco Javier F. Serrador, Alexander Shopov, - Marcel Telka, Miloslav Trmac, Ilkka Tuohela, Tommi Vainikainen, - Vincent van Adrighem, Adam Weinberger) - -2.6.0.7 stuff: - -- Now using CVS head of vicious-extensions, left out of previous - release due to schedule freeze. - -- Do not init the wm twice if gdm_wm_init is called twice. (George) - -- Always destroy dialog widget in greeter to fix non-fatal error - dialogs from hanging around. (George) - -- Leak corrected in daemon/verify-pam.c. (George) - -- Corrected g_strconcat call in gui/gdmsetup.c. (meissner@suse.de) - -- Added Afrikaans, Northern Sotho, South African English, and Zulu. - to language translations. (Dwayne Baily) - -- Updated build files so it can be built and distributed with new - buildtools than 1.4. makedist fixes, etc. - -- Dwayne Bailey, \305\275ygimantas Beru\304\215ka, Mohammad DAMT, - Laurent Dhima, Laszlo Dvornik, Artur Flinta, Martin Willemoes - Hansen, Raphael Higino, Priit Laes, David Lodge, Duarte Loreto, - Jordi Mallach, Kjartan Maraas, Kostas Papadimas, Hendrik Richter, - Christian Rose, Francisco Javier F. Serrador, Alexander Shopov, - Marcel Telka, Miloslav Trmac, Tommi Vainikainen, Vincent van - Adrighem, Funda Wang, Adam Weinberger, Simos Xenitellis, - Meelad Zakaria - -2.6.0.6 stuff: - -- Allow flexi x servers to be launched from the fifo script with - "echo FLEXI_XSERVER > <ServAuthDir>/.gdmfifo" (Tuukka Hastrup, me) - -- Autologin works on the first handled display not just first local - display - -- There is a global cookie for the SUP protocol in <ServAuthDir>/.cookie - -- Xnest is set up properly on Solaris (Brian) - -- Fixup comments in the config file (Brian, me) - -- Fix language selection (Ray Strode) - -- Set the GDM_XSERVER_LOCATION env var on the session so that the - user can find out what they can do. - -- Fix logindevperm stuff to allow a11y access to sound (Brian Cameron) - -- Solaris build fixes for Solaris 9 and earlier (Brian Cameron) - -- Translation updates (Kjartan Maraas, Christophe Merlet, Changwoo Ryu, - Laszlo Dvornik, Adam Weinberger, Zygimantas Berucka, Alessio Frusciante, - Francesco Marletta) - -2.6.0.5 stuff: - -- Doc update (Brian Cameron) - -- Solaris fix (don't call logindevperm if not on the console) (Brian Cameron) - -- Translation updates (Akagic Amila, Jesus Bravo Alvarez, - Theppitak Karoonboonyanan, Laszlo Dvornik, Supranee Thirawatthanasuk, - Hendrik Richter, Dafydd Harries, Francisco Javier F. Serrador, - Tommi Vainikainen, David Lodge, Marius Andreiana, Misu Moldovan, - Baris Cicek, Vincent van Adrighem, Tino Meinen, Nikos Charonitakis, - Arafat Medini, Asmund Skjaeveland, Hasbullah Bin Pit, Ryoichi INAGAKI, - Changwoo Ryu, Jordi Mallach, Danilo Segan, Laurent Dhima, - Maxim Dziumanenko, Christian Rose) - -2.6.0.4 stuff: - -- Allow not checking directory owners with CheckDirOwner key, - (Andreas Schubert) - -- FreeBSD support for VTAllocation stuff (Alexander Nedousukov) - -- Add de_AT, de_CH, fr_BE, fr_CH, hy_AM to language list (#148349, #139454) - -- Add more native versions of language names and fix up existing ones, - #148373, #148486, 148356, #148350, #88777, #150293 - -- Add support for Solaris logindevperm and auditing (Brian Cameron) - -- Fix some strings, fixes #144076, #144077, #147800 - -- On sun we automatically make the default config add -nobanner to - the X server flags (Arvind) - -- Fix doubleclicking on the user browser in the standard greeter - -- Fix #144007 where bad .profile could screw up a session start - -- Fix #148042 by making GETTEXT_PACKAGE just gdm - -- Fix #147940 by properly checking if shutdown/reboot/suspend commands exist - in the graphical greeter - -- Fix #143707 by using Exclude key for the user dropdown lists in gdmsetup - -- Fix some compiler warnings for new gcc - -- .dmrc is created with umask 077 for maximum anality - -- Translation updates (Kjartan Maraas, Laszlo Dvornik, Laurent Dhima, - Martin Willemoes Hansen, Marie Lund, Metin Amiroff, Francisco Javier F. - Serrador, Duarte Loreto, Tommi Vainikainen, Leonid Kanter, Changwoo Ryu, - Funda Wang, Artur Flinta, GNOME PL Team, Miloslav Trmac, Adam Weinberger, - Estevao Samuel Procopio, Tommi Vainikainen, Danilo Segan, Guntupalli - Karunakar, Lucas Vieites, Christian Neumair, Nikos Charonitakis, - Gustavo Maciel Dias Vieira, Afonso Celso Medina, Sebastien Bacher, - Ole Laursen, Ivan Stojmirov, Andras Timar) - -2.6.0.3 stuff: - -- Fix cpu/bandwidth eating on idle displays by not blinking the cursor - after 20 seconds of inactivity on anything other then :0, fixes #135764 - -- In the face greeter cut after a comma in the gecos field if there are - at least two commas since then it's probably some login arguments and - not the name of the user, "fixes" #142274 - -- Apply patch to make the language dialog at most 600 pixels so that it - doesn't look too bad on large displays, #142175 (Leonard Michlmayr) - -- Fix last_x_failed possible infinite loop on slow machines, #141497 - -- Fix multihead code in the *mouselistener modules, this confused the - moronic bonobo DISPLAY logic - -- Don't use certain languages on the console. Controlled by the - daemon/ConsoleCannotHandle config key, but that's a hack. Oh well, - better then displaying garbage in cjk and similar. "fixes" #135387 - -- Ensure proper ~/.ICEauthority permissions to fix broken cases such - as gnome-session vs. suid root apps that create root owned ~/.ICEauthority, - "fixes" #137345 - -- We no longer use `which' command which is horribly broken on some horribly - broken systems and use a private shell version, #133245 (Brian Cameron, me) - -- Solaris fixes, #137600 (build), #133245 (chown arguments) (Brian Cameron, - Ivan Noris) - -- Support system-config-display as X setup for FC2 - -- Further shell quoting paranoia in gdmsetup - -- Many minor fixes - -- Add some new new icons (James M. Cape) - -- Translation updates (Francisco Javier F. Serrador, Alexander Shopov, - Rostislav Raykov, Dinesh Nadarajah, Asmund Skjaeveland) - -2.6.0.2 stuff: - -- Fix PAM braindamage in #119853 and #126984 (Frederic Crozat, me) - -- Fix the flexiserver protocol (gdmflexiserver should no longer hang) - -- Disable IPv6 by default, it's still kind of problematic, you have - to explicitly enable it now with --enable-ipv6=yes - -- Fix some IPv6 issues, #133246 - -- Fix message weirdness in the greeters, #123958 (Frederic Crozat, me) - -- Set font correctly on theming, #125070 (Muktha, me) - -- Translation updates (John C Barstow, Vincent van Adrighem, Christophe Merlet, - Changwoo Ryu) - -2.6.0.1 stuff: - -- Also ensure that /tmp/.X11-unix exists as well as /tmp/.ICE-unix, and - do this in a way to avoid self races - -- Main daemon now ignores SIGPIPE which it can get which would cause - a crash (Jerry Wall) - -- Fix a file descriptor leak when closing slaves (Jerry Wall) - -- Fixed IPv6 authorization setting in .Xauthority (Vijaykumar Patwari) - -- Some typos fixed - -- Translation updates (Guntupalli Karunakar, Christian Rose, Gareth Owen, - Andras Timar, Gujarati Team, Christophe Merlet, Inaki Larranaga, - Changwoo Ryu, Samuel Jon Gunnarsson, Helgi, Pormar Porbjornsson, - Zuza Software Foundation, Ole Laursen, Jaswinder Singh Phulewala, - Asmund Skjaeveland, Robert Sedak, Takeshi Aihana, Mugurel Tudor, - Misu Moldovan, Abel Cheung, Kevin Kee, Baris Cicek, Telsa Gwynne, - Sayamindu Dasgupta, Indranil Dasgupta, Francisco Javier F. Serrador, - Arafat Medini, Indictrans team, Leonid Kanter, Dafydd Harries, - Alession Frusciante, Francesco Marletta) - -2.6.0.0 stuff: - -- DisplayLastLogin defaults to false since '/usr/bin/last' is stupidly - unlocalized - -- Add translated (de, es, fr, it, ja, ko, sv, zh_CN, zh_HK and zh_TW) - documentation (Glynn, Sun translation team) - -- Translation updates (Christophe Merlet, Christian Neumair, Maxim Dziumanenko, - Telsa Gwynne, Stanislav Visnovsky, Gustavo Maciel Dias Vieira, - Alastair McKinstry, Alexander Winston, Sanlig Badral, Vincent van Adrighem, - Michiel Sikkes, Funda Wang, Ales Nyakhaychyk, Metin Amiroff, Takeshi AIHANA, - Alessio Frusciante, Francesco Marletta) - -2.5.90.2 stuff: - -- Support for GTK+ theming (accessibility) and ability to change current - theme in the standard login, fixes #125070 (Muktha, me) - -- Hindi was written wrong in the language menu fixes #134372 - (Guntupalli Karunakar) - -- When restarting a server by whacking it and starting it again, wait - for 1 sec to allow things to "settle", plus be a lot milder on X - server's lock files / sockets to avoid whacking ones currently in use - -- Make language dialog in the graphical greeter come up quicker and init - the languages lazily - -- Fix #135232 by using code@mod for the translation matrix (me), and added - Serbian variants there (Danilo Segan) - -- Fix #135053 by adding canadian english (Adam Weinberger, Danilo Segan) - -- Fix sourcing of environment on AIX, #135401 (Vincent Berger) - -- Fix displaying of ~/.xsession-errors file - -- Attempt to handle out of user diskspace more gracefully by whacking old - .xsession-errors in case we fail. - -- Translation updates (Nikos Charonitakis, Jordi Mallach, Funda Wang, - Tommi Vainikainen, Kostas Papadimas, Kjartan Maraas, Miloslav Trmac, - Laurent Dhima, Zygimantas Berucka, Christian Rose, Changwoo Ryu, - Yukihiro Nakai, Duarte Loreto, Christophe Merlet, - Francisco Javier F. Serrador, Artur Flinta, Alastair McKinstry, - Guntupalli Karunakar, Takeshi AIHANA, Paisa Seeluangsawat, - Surichat Sumrit, Supranee Thirawatthanasuk, Chanchai Junlouchai, - Adam Weinberger, Christian Neumair, Hasbullah Bin Pit, - Pauli Virtanen, Ole Laursen, Asmund Skjaeveland, Metin Amiroff, - Vincent van Adrighem, Tino Meinen, GNOME PL Team) - -2.5.90.1 stuff: - -- Login field was not cleared when x server / slave crashed (#131389) - -- Change the 12 hour format to be less confusing (#133189) - -- Re-fix the aix ADMCHG bug #123766 (Vincent Berger) - -- keymouselistener fixes (Brian Cameron) - -- Compilation fixes #131042, #130963 - -- Build fixes (Tomasz Kloczko) - -- Other fixes and cleanups (among others #133181 by Mariano Suarez-Alvarez) - -- Translation update (Andras Timar, Francisco Javier F. Serrador, Lucas Vieites, - Maxim Dziumanenko, Robert Sedak, Metin Amiroff, Laurent Dhima, Changwoo Ryu, - Kjartan Maraas, Miloslav Trmac, Asmund Skjaeveland, Sanlig Badral, - Zygimantas Berucka, Kostas Papadimas, Christian Neumair, Artur Flinta, - GNOME PL Team, Gustavo Maciel Dias Vieira, Joao Emanuel, Danilo Segan, - Vincent van Adrighem, Tino Meinen, Fernando Herrera, Arafat Medini) - -2.5.90.0 stuff: - -- Add accessibility setting to gdmsetup and allow setting an arbitrary - sound for the "ready for login" sound. (#125487) - -- gdmflexiserver now lists running sessions if there are some and allow - the users to easily switch. (#127038) - -- Display last login when the user enters their name (can be turned - off) (#128940) - -- Inactive flexiservers are reaped by default after 5 minutes. - -- Accessibility modules set the busy cursor for 2 secs to show that - an action was started (#125153) - -- Doubleclicking on a language in graphical greeter selects it - (Kirk Mitchener, #123199) - -- Optional info message on login (sort of like motd) (Anton Altaparmakov, - #125219) - -- New SUP (socket protocol) commands to request shutdown/reboot after - session ends or after all users log out. Also new SUP commands for - querying and setting the VT on Linux. - -- A --wait-for-go option that will start one X server and then wait until - GO is sent through the fifo before going further. - -- IPv6 support (Archana Shah) - -- Built in sessions are out of /etc/X11/dm/Sessions and moved to - <datadir>/gdm/BuiltInSessions - -- Fix chooser communication vs. accessibility stuff (#125064) - -- Fix RetryDelay and make it default to 1 and not 3 (Leena Gunda, me, #128507) - -- On AIX without PAM, password expiration is done (Vincent Berger, me, #123766) - -- On crypt/shadow the double login warning was too early, now done after - authentication as in the PAM setup. - -- Clients are now forcibly whacked at session stop, should "fix" #126071 - -- Use GtkFileChooser in gdmsetup (Jan Arne Petersen, #128668) - -- Paranoia: Check ownership of the socket before using it - -- Fix xdmcp session counting (#126465) - -- Warn the user when they want to set root as autologin (RH #97716) - -- StandardXServer can now have arguments - -- Default color is now #76848F and the PreSession script tries - to use the default gdm color to fix #128220 - -- Fix assert failure when starting Xnest (#127780) - -- Indent the chooser and config toggles in the setup (#120639) - -- Lots of cleanup and fixes and adding to the general paranoia in the - code. (me, Ray Strode, Brian Cameron) - -- Translation updates (Miloslav Trmac, Andras Timar, David O'Callaghan, - Paul Duffy, Danilo Segan, Vincent van Adrighem, Kostas Papadimas, - Jordi Mallach, Ole Laursen, Dmitry G. Mastrukov, Russian team, - Sanlig Badral, Francisco Javier F. Serrador, Lucas Vieites, - Laurent Dhima, Asmund Skjaeveland, Artur Flinta, Duarte Loreto, - Robert Sedak, Christophe Merlet, Christian Neumair, Zygimantas Berucka) - -2.4.4.5 stuff: - -- Brown paper security bag: ~/.Xauthority could be left readable - after logout - -- gecos info (face browser user name) didn't get through if non-utf8 - (Frederic Crozat) (fixes mandrake #5309) - -- Translation updates (another brown paper bag, these went in over - the last month) (Kjartan Maraas, Andras Timar, Danilo Segan, - Ales Nyakhaychyk, Asmund Skjaeveland, Gustavo Maciel Dias Vieira, - Augusta Marques da Silva, Richard Allen) - -2.4.4.4 stuff: - -- SECURITY: Fixed CAN-2003-0793, a local DoS, the socket connection - is now non-blocking and limitted to the number of commands - -- SECURITY: Fixed CAN-2003-0794, a local DoS, the line length is limitted - to 4096 bytes (note, this was not a buffer overrun). - - (Thanks to Jarno Gassenbauer for pointing out the above two problems) - -- Avoid possible DoS by using "-audit 0" for the X server command line - -- When cookies are in the fallback dir touch them every - 12 hours to avoid tmpwatch from removing them - -- Add config key NeverPlaceCookiesOnNFS to allow - cookie files on NFS or similar filesystems - -- Graphical greeter now graphically complains if it can't - load a theme rather then plainly failing. - -- Go shell quoting crazy (fixes among others rh #105858, - but none of the issues were actually security problems, - "annoying" on really weird configs at most) - -- Some more anality with touching user owned files - -- Fixed the graphical greeter line breaking to not upset - pango and generally work with marked up strings - -- Fix an underlining bug in the graphical greeter when the underlined letter - is the last letter. (discussed in rh #106189) - -- Minor other fixes (among others #123958, #124680) - -2.4.4.3 stuff: - -- The graphical greeter now wraps text correctly (and - all text). Plus you can insert \n in the welcome text - now too (it worked for gdmlogin before) Fixes #123017 - -- The entry type in the graphical greeter listens to - font and color from the normal state (it only has - the normal state) (Anton Altaparmakov, me) - -- Tweak fontsizes in the default themes to be smaller. For - some reason they very suddenly very huge. - -- Further memory savings in the graphical greeter (though - it may be offset by the new wrapping code which is quite - large :) - -- Another security audit, but no new security holes found, - on the other hand lots of code changed to being - super-anal (which is never bad in something running as - root) - -- Lots of random fixes again - -2.4.4.2 stuff: - -- Fix the session setup to be both back-compatible and - fully KDM (kde 3.2) compatible, among others: - - SessionDesktopDir is now a path - - Change 'Default' to 'default' - - Honor TryExec correctly - - Other then 'default', the gnome and CDE sessions are - now installed in /usr/share/xsessions (if prefix==/usr) - -- Support SELinux - -- Fix the 'switchdesk' mode and mention 'switchdesk' - only if it's actually installed (rh #104287) - -- Use the a11y modules for the chooser as well as the - error dialogs - -- Lots of dwellmouselistener and keymouselistener a11y - modules fixing, as in they actually work now, - among other fixes are #122944, #122658, #122616 - -- Default gestures for gok (David Bolter, me) - -- Lots of small fixes - -- Error dialogs are now crashing theme/module tolerant - -- Load ~/.face.icon for kde 3.2 interoperability - -- Clean up the random stuff again a bit (we get more entropy - for less work, yay!) - -- Documentation updates - -- Translation updates (Alessio Frusciante, Francesco Marletta, - Changwoo Ryu) - -2.4.4.1 stuff: - -- Update the manual a bit - -- Some internal cleanup - -- Be ultra anal with creating the user protocol socket - -- Don't fall back to 'nobody' if the gdm user is not found - (that is a horrible behaviour) - -- Support and write KDM style .dmrc (KDM will use this in - the next version). Still KDM will use /etc/X11/sessions, - and we're using /etc/X11/dm/Sessions, oh well, life can't - be perfect, next time ... - -- Translation updates (Andras Timar, Pablo Saratxaga, Vincent van Adrighem, - Guntupalli Karunakar, Pablo Gonzalo del Campo, Francisco Javier F. Serrador, - Mugurel Tudor, Misu Moldovan, KAMAGASAKO Masatoshi, Gustavo Noronha Silva, - Hasbullah Bin Pit, Christian Neumair) - -Major changes in 2.4.4.x since 2.4.1.x: - -- Full reference documentation! -- Facebrowser support in the graphical greeter -- Better HIG support -- Many security improvements -- Performance and memory usage improvements -- XDMCP much more robust -- Better support for running XDMCP-only servers -- Session setup is reworked into a new common standard - to be implemented in KDM soon -- "Proper" support for PAM making things like - smartcard modules possible -- XDMCP chooser may be run directly from the local - login dialog (or you can have the chooser be default) -- A PostLogin script for finer grained login setup -- Many MANY bugfixes and build fixes -- Lots of new translations -- And lots of other new features, improvements, - and bugfixes, see individual news entries since - 2.4.1.4 - -2.4.4.0 stuff (since 2.4.2.102): - -- Updated the documentation quite a bit again. - -- Make the .spec file work again - -- Run pam_close_session and the delete cred AFTER the - PostSession script and all those places where we touch - the home dir so that pam_mount works properly - -- Fix error output to point to the right places - -- Create log file correctly during "make install" - -- Translation updates (Dafydd Harries, Alessio Frusciante, Jordi Mallach, - Vincent van Adrighem, Ole Laursen, Stanislav Visnovsky, Abel Cheung, - Pablo Gonzalo del Campo, Lucas 'Basurero' Vieites, Danilo Segan, - Laurent Dhima, Christian Neumair) - -2.4.2.102 stuff: - -- Update the manual - -- Fix error where GDM would take up 100% cpu in case - the Xsession file redirect .xsession-errors output - itself (which is really a bug IMO) (#120580) - -- Fallback to an alternative file in the /tmp dir - if we can't create .xsession-errors (or if the home - dir is unsafe or it's a failsafe session) - -- Fix sensitivity with respect to action menu toggle in - the security tab in gdmsetup (#120639) - -- A whole bunch of fixes to how the xauth files - are set up - -- Remove .Xauthority if it would be empty. - -- Added --version command line option (#120409) - -- The gdmsetup.desktop now has System in the - categories (#120360) - -- Filenames are built properly without double '/' - everywhere (#118040) - -- There is a simple gdm(1) man page - -- Many minor fixes - -- The AUTHORS file is updated - -- Translation updates (Artur Flinta, Duarte Loreto, - Metin Amiroff, Tőivo Leedjärv, Changwoo Ryu, - Kjartan Maraas) - -2.4.2.101 stuff: - -- Memory profiling of the graphical greeter by not keeping - around info (pixmaps) which we won't need. On the circles - theme this saves about 6megs on the circles theme. - Also cache pixmaps in the graphical greeter which reduces - the disk rattling we need to do to start up. Plus a bit - of just performance profiling should reduce CPU usage of - the graphical greeter quite a bit too. - -- Update the manual, especially the theme section - -- The UserAuthDir now works in a much saner way. If the - directory is not tilde expanded, then we treat it just - like /tmp and use random filenames. - -- Prevent a minor DoS attack (apps being coerced to fill - up the home dir) by intercepting the output from the - session and only writing to the ~/.xsession-errors - file a maximum of 80*2500 bytes. - -- The user lists in the face browsers and the gdmsetup are - now capped at a higher number, but we also cap the time - that is spent gathering the info at 5 seconds. - -- Deal with hypothetical main daemon crashes semi decently - in the slave. - -- Try /dev/fd if /proc/self/fd isn't there for checking - which FDs are open, should make this work on more platforms - (in particular FreeBSD) - -- Run fbconsole on startup if found, this is a solaris - thing to prevent console output to corrupt your display - (Brian Cameron) - -- Use the 66 code from session to indicate failure that - need not display the .xsession-errors file - -- Actually read the "active" state for text items - -- Break all pam messages (not just the error) at 50 - columns. This is kind of a hack, we need to support - proper linebreaking in the theme. - -- Respect negative coordinates with "-0" in the - theme - -- Display help from the setup program if not running - from within gdm itself - -- The standard config file now has most keys commented out - so that the internal defaults are used and so that we can - change those defaults in the future without the user having - to update the config file. - -- Improvements in the cookie generation. Doesn't use - up all the system entropy but just uses the 16 bytes it - actually needs (since we just need a 16 byte cookie). - Plus improve randomness on systems without /dev/random - and friends. - -- Correctly handle out of diskspace on auth handling and - on the PID file thing. - -- Fix the runlevel reading - -- Fix possible crash on auth purge - -- Fix possible chooser crash - -- Fix lots of minor bugs - -- Some optimization to save a nanosecond or two - -- Translation updates (Wang Jian, Funda Wang, Christian Rose, Jordi Mallach, - Danilo Segan, Artur Flinta, Miloslav Trmac, Duarte Loreto, Kostas Papadimas, - Ales Nyakhaychyk, Laurent Dhima, Christophe Merlet, - Evandro Fernandes Giovanini, Metin Amiroff, Pauli Virtanen, Dafydd Harries) - -2.4.2.100 SECURITY ADDENDUM: - Was not part of the original release notes to give distributors a chance - to update. - -- SECURITY: Fixed CAN-2003-0547 which allows any user to read any - root readable text file on the system by making a symlink from - ~/.xsession-errors - -- SECURITY: Fixed CAN-2003-0548, a crash when chosen host expires. - DoS only for XDMCP (XDMCP should however be confined to a 'trusted' - network anyway) - -- SECURITY: Fixed CAN-2003-0549, a crash if authorization key name - is shorter then 18 bytes (that is, not MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1) - DoS only for XDMCP (XDMCP should however be confined to a 'trusted' - network anyway) - -2.4.2.100 stuff: - -- Fix #118878 by actually ensuring /tmp/.ICE-unix - -- More doc updates - -- Fix up rlimit use and handle cases where we ourself - hit SIGXCPU and SIGXFSZ. Also handle SIGABRT cleanly - in the main daemon. - -- The error gui uses the same theme as the greeters - -- The pam config files don't include the /lib/security - prefix as apparently it's more kosher to let pam - find the modules itself - -- Fix some crashes in main daemon, fix debug output in places - -- A whole pile of minor XDMCP updates - -- Fix solaris build (Brian Cameron) - -- Limit users in face browsers above 100 not 50 - -- Remove any mentions of SessionMaxFile as it isn't used anymore - -- Some typos fixed (Jordi Mallach) - -- Translation updates (Jordi Mallach, Artur Flinta, Christian Rose, - Miloslav Trmac, Kostas Papadimas, Duarte Loreto, Ole Laursen, - Danilo Segan, Christian Neumair) - -2.4.2.99 stuff: - -- Updated docs a bit - -- When no local servers are defined we assume we have no console - and don't use the console to print messages with gdmopen and - dialog. Also --no-console now forces this (forces ignoring - [servers] section). Fixes debian #194613 - -- Changed required permissions on ServAuthDir to be: root.gdm 1770. - These are now enforced and GDM will try to set them if they're - not that way already. - -- Fix PostLogin to behave like PostSession with respect to the return - value. - -- Use /var/log/gdm by default as logdir rather then the ServAuthDir - -- The face browsers all display at most 50 users. This should fix - very large systems where this may hang for a long time and more - then 50 users in a facebrowser is useless anyway. - -- Reworked the server reinit to use SIGUSR1 as it should, should - fix some weird crashes which left X behind before. - -- A lot of race hunting again. - -- No more pam session_close and delete of credits if the user - has not yet logged in. - -- SIGTERM should kill things at any point properly without hanging - -- Faster shutdown in case there are lots of XDMCP sessions - open - -- Fix hang on systems where maximum number of open file descriptors - is very very high. Use /proc/self/fd/ if available. - -- Use sched_yield in places where we know the other process - really has stuff to do, so that we speed things along. - -- Remove some deprecated function use (Steve Chaplin #118361) - -- Don't build with tcp wrappers if we don't build XDMCP - -- Don't include programmer references in translatable strings, - this time should really be fixed (#56654) - -- Redo the user selector setup in pam. Now completely restart - pam when user is selected. - -- In the face browsers the username is bold to separate it from - the user info - -- An X bell is sounded when the username prompt comes on. Useful - for the blind. - -- On exit from an XDMCP display whack all the clients with windows - to support the more broken displays. - -- gdmchooser handles HUP gracefully and rereads config - -- gdmthemetester improved - -- Some build fixes - -- Fix some C99 isms - -- Many other fixes - -- Translation updates (Christian Neumair, Dafydd Harries, Kostas Papadimas, - Artur Flinta, Duarte Loreto, Christophe Merlet, Kjartan Maraas, - Miloslav Trmac, Gil "Dolfin" Osher, Christian Rose, Kang Jeong-Hee, - Vincent van Adrighem, Pablo Gonzalo del Campo, Lucas 'Basurero' Vieites, - Jordi Mallach) - -2.4.2.98 stuff: - -- DOCUMENTATION! We have documentation! I've updated the - xml docs and they're installed so you can use the GNOME - help browser to browse them under GNOME|System. Or you - can view the HTML versions on the webpage - (www.jirka.org/gdm.html) - -- Whack the GdmGreeterThemeManual.txt as it is now part - of the xml documentation - -- Add mnemonics/keynav to a bunch of things and generally try to - fix issues from the HIG bugs filed in bugzilla (partially - fixes #117776, #117784, #117504 - -- Add "listitem" tag to the graphical themes. This allows - custom list widgets in the theme and then you can get - the info in a PreSession script or whatnot. - -- The graphical greeter now scales down fonts on screens - 800x600 and less, and scales down fonts even more - on screens 640x480 and less. - -- Remove the iconification of Standard greeter feature, - it was broken and I didn't want to fix it, and it was - weird anyway. - -- Internal messaging is now faster as we use an internal pipe - instead of the FIFO file. Also reduces the damage gdm user - can do - -- Don't XOpenDisplay so many times to make things run along - a lot faster, and use XSetAuthority instead of XAUTHORITY - env var internally. - -- The server reinit is now safer, doesn't fork an extra process - and it's quite a bit faster - -- Justification of text in the graphical greeter is based on - the anchor of the text - -- We're very careful about the log directory as well as the - ServAuthDir - -- Fix a bunch of errors (mostly portability stuff) by looking at the - FreeBSD cvs repository - -- The server authfile is now unreadable by the gdm user during - a user sessions for security - -- Fixed #109331, by catching term/int/hup signals properly when inside - the hanging gethostbyaddr/name - -- The name resolution stuff now caches the last result for 60 - seconds - -- Get the name of the root user instead of assuming it's "root" - (fixes #117527) - -- Fix hangs with the signal stuff by fixing the in_signal flag - undercounts and redoing the waitpid mess in the slave by using - a select call, and not doing that many things in the signal - handlers. Also fixes a long delay when restarting the greeter - -- Fix configuration with --with-xinerama=no (#117895) - -- The standard greeter clock will now look much better with - some themes. - -- An empty return will once again log you into the timed user - as it did before I broke it - -- The Xsession now displays $0 in output (Steve Chaplin, #117898) - -- There is now a gdmtranslate libexec proggie that does what - the gettext command does, so we get translations from scripts - even on user systems (ones without developer kind of packages) - -- Fix gdmaskpass internationalization - -- Lots of random minor fixes - -- Translation updates (Artur Flinta, Vincent van Adrighem, - Duarte Loreto, Pablo Gonzalo del Campo, Francisco Javier Fernandez, - Hasbullah Bin Pit, Noor Azurah Anuar, Christian Neumair, - Miloslav Trmac, Danilo Segan, Serbian team, Kang Jeong-Hee) - -2.4.2.97 stuff: - -- HIGify almost all the alert boxes. - -- Fix install of the sessions setup by creating the /etc/X11/dm - dir fixes #116836 - -- Fix DNS lookup stuff in XDMCP for places without DNS. Also cache - last result of DNS lookup to cut down traffic during session setup. - -- daemon, gdmgreeter, gdmlogin and gdmchooser don't link against - libgnome and friends (gdmgreeter still uses canvas). This - reduces number of libs linked by daemon from 46 to 26, for - gdmgreeter this goes from 56 to 32 and for gdmlogin this goes - from 52 to 22, and gdmchooser is down to 27 - -- If a greeter crashes within 10 seconds of display start, try - running a different greeter (and telling the user that) - -- Fix the chooser so that it actually chooses the host that - you clicked on and not some random one. This also changes - the chooser to use GtkTreeView - -- Fix #97774 by resetting the rlimits back after we fork the - user session. Also make AlwaysRestartServer default to false - again since it was a workaround for this bug. - -- Checking for free display numbers was only taking into account - servers listening on tcp. - -- The .desktop files include correct Terminal and StartupNotify - entries (Jordi Mallach) - -- Fallback for home is now ServAuthDir for gdm processes - instead of / and for shell we use /bin/sh consistently - (rather then /bin/bash) - -- The full error dialog is now run as the gdm user for security - (no more gtk code run as root) Also uses GtkTextView, - looks nicer and converts encoding correctly. - -- Be very careful when opening files just about everywhere, - so this prevents some possible damage someone could do if - they do manage to get the gdm user privs. - -- If X server crashes or doesn't otherwise whack its lockfile, - help it along, should fix #114003 and redhat #90014 - -- No translatable message contains unneccessary markup now - (fixes #101794 and #101795) - -- gdmsetup .desktop file is now in the SystemSetup category - and so goes into System Setup in the menu (#116977) - -- The bits that parse X output now understand v4 XFree86 output - correctly - -- gdmopen now sets up TERM to "linux" on linux to make sure - that fonts come out all ok - -- Use ve-config (from vicious-extensions) everywhere in the daemon - -- Fix RH #84247 by checking for gettext binary before using it - -- The standard themes now don't include the translated labels - since they weren't used anyway and this improves load times - and memory usage. - -- Updated the theme document a bit, and the dtd is now in the - tarball in gui/greeter/ - -- Random other minor fixes - -- Translation updates (Danilo Segan, Serbian team, Metin Amiroff, - Christian Rose, Kjartan Maraas, Artur Flinta, Vincent van Adrighem, - Valek Filippov, Laurent Dhima, Christophe Merlet, Mohammad DAMT, - Dafydd Harries, Kang Jeong-Hee, Simos Xenitellis, Miloslav Trmac, - Artur Flinta) - -2.4.2.96 stuff: - -- When you log in twice on a different server, gdm warns you and if - both logins are console logins on linux, then you can have gdm switch - consoles for you instead of logging on. - -- Errorgui (failsafe) dialogs now run mostly under the gdm user and not as root - -- In the .desktop files we now refer to GDM as Login Screen and not GDM, - fixes #85543 - -- Add ALL_SERVERS to the socket protocol which returns all the displays - -- DESKTOP_SESSION is set in addition to GDMSESSION. Also these are unset - in the standard Xsession file not to pollute the env namespace. - -- Add CDE session .desktop (Brian Cameron) - -- Remove some debugging output (and make it only output stuff when debug is on) - -- Fix the output reading of failsafe yes/no dialog - -- Fix some typos in config stuff (Ali Akcaagac, me) - -- Graphical greeter should now work again (Frederic Crozat, Diego Gonzalez, me) - -- Fix compilation on non-pam setups and non-linux setup - -- Fix default paths (Brian Cameron, me) - -- Actually include the theme document! - -- Minor other fixes - -- Translation updates (Christian Rose, Vincent van Adrighem) - -2.4.2.95 stuff: - -- Completely new session setup, born out of discussions with Oswald - Buddenhagen, the KDM maintainer, which will bring about common session - setup for both GDM and KDM. We now basically have a common - /etc/X11/dm/Sessions directory where there are .desktop files are stored - which describe sessions and these will be shared among KDM and GDM. - Among other things this also makes the face browser default to using - ~/.face and the per user saved info is in ~/.dmrc - -- The greeter.dtd is updated and there is theme creation documentation - (Brian Cameron, Aidan Butler, me) - -- A face browser for the graphical greeter. This is selecting by selecting - a theme that implements it. Add happygnome-list which does. - (Patrizio Bruno, me) - -- The standard greeter has a GtkTreeView based face browser based on the - new one from the graphical greeter. - -- Accesibility work. Add possibility of adding modules to the greeter through - AddGtkModules and GtkModulesList. Add guesture listeners. Dwell mouse - events. (Niall Power, Brian Cameron) - -- Attempt at getting things HIG-ified - -- Add "Run XDMCP chooser" button to the system menu, which is now called - the "Actions" menu, also allow a server type that runs a chooser by - adding a "chooser=true" to a server definition. - -- The XDMCP chooser got an overhaul internally. Also there is an "Add" - button to add new hosts by typing in the hostname. - -- Add a PostLogin script which is run right after login succeeds but before - any setup is done. This can be used if the users home directory needs - to be setup here. - -- Add security/DisallowTCP which will append -nolisten tcp to all - console displays, and this is by default true. Fixes #87291 - -- PingInterval is now PingIntervalSeconds and is now in seconds, it makes no - sense in minutes really since nobody is that patient anymore these days, also - the comment in the config file said seconds, so I suppose this is a bugfix, - should "fix" #103266 - -- Add a "Delete theme" button to gdmsetup, add a scroll window to the - theme preview, fixes #110302 and #104757 - -- PAM now asks for username itself. This made LocalNoPasswordUsers impossible, - and so that was removed. This way hopefully we should work with some more - pam setups, such as smartcard ones. Fixes issues from #106537 - -- The GNOME session chooser stuff is removed since it wasn't working all - right anyway and was kind of icky. - -- The F10 menu in the graphical greeter is nicer. - -- When you doubleclick on the radiobutton in graphical greeter Actions - menu, it activates the item (Mihael Vrbanec) - -- There is the Welcome label and RemoteWelcome label now. The local Welcome - label is now just "Welcome" since "Welcome to localhost" is silly. Also - the graphical greeter uses this, as long as you use the stock label text. - -- Check for the capslock turned on before warning about it, and also only - mention "bad username or password" if we actually asked for a password. - Fixes #71496 - -- The "subtype" field to the "show" item for the themes is gone, it was stupid - and I hope no one used it (it wasn't documented anyhow). - -- A bunch of standard pam messages are now translated inside gdm - -- If there are many sessions available the graphical greeter presents - a scrolled window, fixes #104120 - -- Don't set RUSER for PAM and don't set RHOST if this is a console login, - apparently this is what it should be doing according to the Sun guys, - fixes issues from #106537 - -- The loop of death is now working as it should be and is not as sensitive. - Also the toplevel loop of death does not abort the display, but only - disables it for 2 minutes. - -- Suspend now works much better and doesn't whack the gdm process, - fixes #108700 - -- When more then 50 users on the system don't put them all into - the combobox in gdmsetup, semi-fixes #111830 - -- When using shadow passwords, fall back to standard if shadow is - not available, fixes #109765 (cschelcher@free.fr) - -- Use strerror and not g_strerror as the latter returns UTF-8, - fixes #106655 - -- Set TEXTDOMAIN to GETTEXT_PACKAGE for the x keeps failing script, - fixes #106657 (Owen Taylor) - -- gdmopens are done using login shell, fixes #106658, also gdmopen - doesn't deallocate the vt which is apparently not kosher and fixes - #106656 (Owen Taylor, me) - -- Fix RedHat #91031, prepend a dash rather then make shell argv[0] a dash - (Michael Blandford) - -- On Linux detect the runlevel and try to detect the user having run shutdown - (from say gnome-session) and if so suspend the slave operation for 30 - seconds and wait what happens. Most likely we'll get whacked. - -- Fix typos and change some strings, #106207, #105923, #56654 among others - -- gdmmktemp is gone as we have not been using it, also gdmaskpass and - gdmopen are now in libexec - -- Many minor fixes - -- Build fixes (Brian Cameron, me) - -- Solaris fixes (Brian Cameron, Niall Power) - -- Translation updates, language additions and such (Danilo Aegan, - Guntupalli Karunakar, Abel Cheung, me, Christian Rose, Christophe Merlet, - Jordi Mallach, Christian Neumair, Miroslav Trmac, Pablo Gonzalo del Campo, - Hasbullah Bin Pit, Vincent van Adrighem, Evandro Fernandes Giovanini, - David Barzilay, Lucas 'Basurero' Vieites, Duarte Loreto, Kostas Papadimas, - KAMAGASAKO Masatoshi, Dmitry G. Mastrukov) - -2.4.1.4 stuff: - -- Raise DisplaysPerHost default to 2 to avoid a FAQ-type-problem - -- Add xdmcp/PingInterval key to the default config file - -- Fixed up the included spec file - -- Fixed some typo's (Kjartan Maraas) - -- Fixed Solaris build (Niall Power) - -- Added Thai, Mongolian, Indonesian, Kannada, Hindi - Bengali, Belarusian, Bosnian, Welsh, Persian, Interlingua, - Albanian, Serbian, Yiddish and Panjabi Language support - (Ross Golder, Sanlig Badral) - -- Sorted languages in alphabetic order (#106293) (Ross Golder) - -- Translation updates (Roozbeh Purnader, Christian Rose, Taneem Ahmed, - Pablo Saratxaga, Danilo Aegan, Jordi Mallach, Dmitry G. Mastrukov, - Belarusian team, Alessio Frusciante, Lapo Calamandrei, Christophe Merlet, - Andras Timar, Takeshi AIHANA, Roozbeh Pournader, Artis Trops, - Kang Jeong-Hee, Stanislav Visnovsky, FSF-India, Abel Cheung, Metin Amiroff, - Pauli Virtanen, Lauri Nurmi, Kjartan Maraas, Christian Neumar, - Kostas Papadimas, Vincent van Adrighem, Zbigniew Chyla, GNOME PL Team, - Evandro Fernandes Giovanini, Duarte Loreto, Pablo Gonzalo del Campo, - Lucas 'Basurero' Vieites, Ole Laursen, Paul Duffy, Russian team, - Yuriy Syrota, Miloslav Trmac, Gil "Dolfin" Osher, Progga, - Christian Neumair, Alexandre Folle de Menezes, Benjamin Greiner, - Fatih Demir, Arman) - - - -2.4.1.3 stuff: - -- Fix redhat bug #83334 by fixing md5 code on non-alpha 64bit platforms - (Matt Wilson) - -- Build po directory before others. Seems to solve an intermittent - problem with rebuilding .pot file. - -- Translation updates (Duarte Loreto, Fatih Demir, Gorkem, Alessio Frusciante, - Pauli Virtanen, Lauri Nurmi, Kang Jeong-Jee, Christian Rose, - Alessio Frusciante, Lapo Calamandrei, Christophe Merlet) - -2.4.1.2 stuff: - -- The chooser works with keyboard and you don't connect to a different - host if you try to use the keyboard - -- intltool*.in files aren't killed on distclean - -- Translation updates (Pauli Virtanen, Lauri Nurmi, Dmitry G. Mastrukov, - Russian team, Christian Rose, Sanlig Badral, Christian Neumair, - Pablo Saratxaga, Yuriy Syrota, Fatih Demir, Gorkem, Christian Meyer, - Abel Cheung, Gustavo Noronha Silva) - -2.4.1.1 stuff: - -- Workaround librsvg (new librsvg should be fixed though) for non-C locales - -- Make language dialog in the gdmgreeter at least 400 wide (fixes #103254) - -- Don't translate stuff coming from pam (fixes #102691) - -- Make AlwaysRestartServer default to true as it's the safer setting - -- Use UTF-8 rather then utf8 as apparently X gets weird if it's not "UTF-8" - (Mike Fabian) - -- Query the user in the case the graphical theme includes halt/reboot/suspend - buttons. (No themes do so far afaik) - -- Add pam_env to the pam config - -- Some minor cleanup - -- Translation updates (Christian Neumair, Daniel Yacob, Kostas Papadimas, - Stanislav Visnovsky, Andras Timar, Yanko Kaneti, Alexander Shopov, - Pablo Gonzalo del Campo, Lucas 'Basurero' Vieites) - -2.4.1.0 stuff: - -- Use background color in the graphical greeter for looking nicer on - Xinearama displays (#94554) - -- Do not translate the copyright string (patch from #101729) - -- Fix the shell basename hack - -- Allow passing TAB to the login entry (#75939) - -- Some string fixes (Alex Duggan, me) - -- GDM photo setup now checks for gdm running (RH #70326 and GNOME #101653) - -- Be UTF-8 safe on expanding strings (#100738) - -- Can use symlinks as session files again (#95380) - -- Amharic language added - -- Add X-GNOME-BUGZILLA to .desktops (Fernando Herrera) - -- Do not run gnome-volume-control since it no longer has the a -i option - (Luis Villa) - -- Store initial environment and use it for starting up the error gui stuff - -- Use internal utf8 conversion to avoid glib crack - -- Fix japanese wordwrap (Havoc, #91921) - -- Unset signals in extra processes and do setsid and all such fun stuff, - and further fixing of handling processes - -- The graphical greeter can use stock tags for labels instead of having the - text inside the theme file. - -- Translation updates (Dmitry G. Mastrukov, Zbigniew Chyla, GNOME PL Team, - Hasbullah Bin Pit, Kjartan Maraas, Vincent van Adrighem, Artis Trops, - Miloslav Trmac, Christophe Merlet, Daniel Yacob, Jordi Mallach, - Ole Laursen, Christian Rose, Andras Timar, Marius Andreiana, - Kostas Papadimas, Yanko Kaneti, Belarusian team, Pablo Saratxaga, - Gustavo Noronha Silva) - -2.4.0.11 stuff: - -- No longer require libglade-convert - -- Don't create runaway slave processes on server reinit. Fixes very slow - subsequent logins. - -2.4.0.10 stuff: - -- Fix timeout on stopping the daemon, now stops immediately. - -- gdm-restart, gdm-soft-restart, gdm-stop find the config file if you haven't - specified --sysconfdir on the configure command line. - -- Minor cleanup - -2.4.0.9 stuff: - -- Race fixing galore. Tested many new codepaths, fixed many new races. - Well not new. Really old ones but still. We're now much better - on handling stuff being killed without us knowing, and stuff dying - in different orders. May fix redhat bug #72295 - -- Automatic VT management. This should fix #62997. Basically on - linux (only currently) we can find a free vt that is higher then - a certain number (by default 7) and force the server to use that. - gdm can now be safely run as service with this on. - -- The locale.alias file now can have a list of locales to try for - each language. We also don't list locales that don't work. This - way by default we can use the .utf8 locales if they exist. - -- DefaultLocale no longer exists, the system setup is used. This - was really broken. - -- We no longer setup locale to a language which doesn't exist. - We also don't unalias languages as this was broken. Just pick - an existing language (I doubt anyone has a setting which requires - unaliasing anyway) - -- More comments in the default config file as a bad excuse for - documentation - -- The chooser can also read <host>.png from the host image - directory and not just <host> - -- The slave now has it's own process group. Should make things work - better when started from init. - -- Handle waiting for X to restart in a new an inventive way. - -- UserAuthDir can now use the ~/ prefix so that this setting can - now be useful. But better left empty anyway. - -- A bunch of minor fixes and cleanup. - -- Translation updates (Christian Neumair) - -2.4.0.8 stuff: - -- New script to aid in testing graphical greeter themes, gdmthemetester. - It will run Xnest with gdmgreeter in debug mode with the specified theme - and under the specified environment. Run it to get help. - -- No longer 'asks twice' in graphical login to halt, reboot or suspend - Fixes #90971 - -- When restarting the greeter from the setup dialog the setup dialog will go - insensitive and force a busy cursor on itself. - -- New icon! And new logo. The new icon is now girlfriend approved (she said - it's not as bad as my first attempt to draw one, so I suppose that means - it's ok). Not that I did ALL the drawing, I borrowed the gnome-term icon - and worked on that :) - -- The focus stuff in both greeters is done in a nicer way. Also the graphical - greeter has a "menubar" (invisible). You can activate it with F10 like any - other menubar. This all should make both greeters even more accessibility - friendly. - -- The Init/PreSession/PostSession directories can now also include Flexi, - and XDMCP scripts which will be run in case the server is flexi or XDMCP. - Also you can specify a <hostname> script to run for specific hosts. - -- You can now setup the daemon to log in certain local (not logging in - through xdmcp) users without a password, Just set the - daemon/LocalNoPasswordUsers to a list of comma separated names. - Fixes #51908 - -- The daemon is fixed so that if pam asks questions during autologin, they - will actually get asked. - -- gdmphotosetup no longer hangs on "Browse". Fixes #90613 - -- Busy cursor will never get stuck on autologin - -- Wait 2 seconds between killing local servers on daemon restart or stop. - This prevents a hung keyboard on my box. - -- Xnest keyboard stuff solved in a better way. Remove the -kb from the command - line so that Xnest understands XKB, and then in the Init script migrate - keyboard configuration. Also read capslock state from the parent server - in the greeter. - -- Close the 0,1,2 descriptors in the gdmXnestchooser so that things like - "`gdmXnest -b`" shell things to get the display number work. - -- gdmXnestchooser acts more nicely on being killed - -- Config file is updated and includes more "documentation" comments - -- If you haven't changed the config then if you are using the tarball install, - the config will be overwritten with the one from the tarball. - -- An incredible "sleep(1)" hack to fix race on server reinit - -- A whole bunch of random small fixes, and changes. - -- Translation updates (He Qiangqiang, Wang Li, Marius Andreiana, - Yukihiro Nakai) - -2.4.0.7 stuff: - -- The graphical greeter has mnemonics so that you can use the keyboard to - log in! - -- Don't run BackgroundProgram unless BackgroundType=0. You can get the - original behaviour with RunBackgroundProgramAlways=true. This is to - fix the redhat setup to be 'saner' - -- The Xterm failsafe session runs the xterm in the lower right hand corner. - I just hope that redhat uses this session as it does cooler things then - the Xsession failsafe which sucks ass. - -- A bunch of scattered minor fixes - -- Add redhat-config-xfree86 to the XKeepsCrashing script (Havoc) - -2.4.0.6 stuff: - -- Stop using stdio in the slave to communicate with the greeter (greeters - still use stdio). This "may" fix the FreeBSD /dev/ttys issue. Plus it's - a nicer way to do it. - -- Read and honour the gtkrc setting in the graphical greeter, fixes #90003 - -- Add a DIRTY_SERVERS and SOFT_RESTART_SERVERS fifo commands which will - make gdm restart all the X servers next time it wants to reinit (such as - when a user logs out) or as soon as possible (in case of SOFT_RESTART_SERVERS) - (See doc in daemon/gdm.h, look for the GDM_SOP_) - Useful for changing X configuration. - You can do "(echo;echo DIRTY_SERVERS) > /var/gdm/.gdmfifo" (Given that - ServAuthDir is /var/gdm). This is a possible solution to issues - such as in redhat bug 70072 - -- Only set GDM_LANG if a language different from the system default was - selected - -- In Gnome and Xsession sessions, ensure that the language is set properly - fixes #89970 - -- Fix crasher bug on closing the gdmsetup window, and fix applying changes - that happened before the writing timeout - -- Clear the initial message even on further tries to log in, fixes redhat bug - 70991 - -- When starting Xnest give it the current font path. Should fix #89308 - -- make the gdmXnest link relative - -- Gnome and Xsession scripts no longer read in the xdm resources, I was - told this is bad - -- Fix some RTL issues with the language lists - -- Ignore up/down/tab in the graphical greeter just like in the standard one, - focus doesn't work right here anyway - -- Translation updates (Dmitry G. Mastrukov, Andras Timar, UHU Linux team, - Manuel Borchers, Christian Neumair, Tőivo Leedjärv, Duarte Loreto, - Stanislav Brabec, Michal Bukovjan, Gustavo Noronha Silva, Peteris Krisjanis, - Akira TAGOH) - -2.4.0.5 stuff: - -- Applied patch from #89454 (Havoc/Owen, me) to change .gnome to .gnome2, - to fix interaction with gnome2. This mostly applies to the session - chooser. Unfortunately this resets your saved language and session - type. - -- Fix the pid checking routine on non-linux systems - -- Use internal routines for writing of the config file so that things - such as comments are now preserved, and some related problems are - fixed. - -- A whole bunch of minor fixes and cleanups, including some possible races - and hangs - -- Don't use deprecated stuff except for the occasional CList usage - -- Fix io channel stuff in the greeters (actually set unbuffered and NULL - encoding, this may just fix all the FreeBSD issues) - -- Recheck for gdm running before sending any update from gdmsetup, this means - that even if you run gdmsetup before gdm, things will still work. - -- Update background and logo on the fly in the standard greeter - -- Properly resize window in the standard greeter when we can't fit - -- Added several more untranslated strings to the language list - (Yanko Kaneti, me) - -- Remove the failsafe 'C' locale addition and replace it with en_US, - in case no en_* language is installed. - -- Translation updates (Fatih Demir, Pablo Saratxaga, me) - -2.4.0.4 stuff: - -- Fix George's stupidity to allow people to log in (Jacob) - The gnomerc was not a correct shell script and I didn't notice - -- Fix some weirdness on setup proggie starting (change dir to something - sane and fix setting the cursor race) - -- Support .bz2 archives as theme archives in the gdmsetup - -- Translation updates (Stanislav Visnovsky, me) - -2.4.0.3 stuff: - -- My girlfriend doesn't like that ugly green color that is used as the - default so use the one that ximian is using since that one is pretty cool. - -- Update the session scripts (especially the Xsession) setup and update the Pre - and Post scripts to be all nice and all that. This fixes a whole bunch of - weird problems. - -- Run gnome-volume-control -i in gnomerc - -- When the users shell is some weird binary name (something that we don't know - if it is a shell or not) run users session in bash or sh. should fix #64662 - -- Make sessreg very happy. Should fix sessreg issues on BSD, and now - sessreg registers the correct pid with the utmp/wtmp so it all works - out nicely - -- Run xmodmap with the default Xmodmap in the Init script, this might fix - #86098 - -- Fix the error display to be nicer and wider - -- In main server wake up the main loop on signals, this may fix some - non-linux issues on systems where poll is not woken up by signals - -- Apply a few ximain patches, or at least do changes inspired by them - -- Some cleanups/fixes of places where unix is very weird and could cause - problems in fringe cases - -- The gdmXnestchooser now works much better in the Xnest only mode, that - is on rh 7.3 it now actually works again. You can also start it only - as gdmXnest to get the pure Xnest only mode. This would be the user - friendly way of starting Xnest. - -- Add busy cursor when starting the configurator, and a busy cursor when - restarting the greeter - -- Fix restoring the window order after we change the greeter, fixes #88533 - (The window was disappearing before) - -- Happygnome theme yet again fixed (Frederic Crozat) - -- 24 hour clock preference now on the main page in gdmsetup - -- gdmsetup greeter themebrowser now wraps test correctly - -- Corrected some language names and added a few extra languages, fixes - among others #88273, #88423 - -- Translation updates (Christian Rose, Vincent van Adrighem, Zbigniew Chyla, - Ole Laursen, Hasbullah Bin Pit, Christophe Merlet, Changwoo Ryu, - Kjartan Maraas, Jarkko Ranta, Jordi Mallach, Yanko Kaneti, me) - -2.4.0.2 stuff: - -- Add busy cursor when we start X so that the user knows that GDM - is busy before the greeter/chooser appears. - -- Added a 'System default' language choice. This choice will use - whatever the system sets up elsewhere. Also this fixes using the - system default on *BSD - -- Remove the English en locale since 'en' is not a legal locale, - now you have to pick either american or british english. - -- Fix the unresponsive behaviour when first asking for username in the - graphical greeter, bug #83187 - -- Added 'Last' language choice to the graphical greeter. - -- The graphical greeter follows the 24 hour clock setting (Terje Rosten) - -- Update the Happy GNOME theme (Steve Fox) - -- Cleanup of the IO channels all over, this fixes some FreeBSD issues - but not all (Kesor, me) - -- Added more languages and more untranslated names, bug #84290 among others, - (Hasbullah Bin Pit, me) - -- Ensure existance of file descriptors 0, 1 and 2 on startup, should fix - some problems on very esoteric setups. - -- Source /etc/profile in the gdm script - -- All installed .desktop's have Encoding=UTF-8 as per the standard - -- Fix the failsafe question dialog - -- Fix crash and login window reparenting in the gdmwm window manager - -- Corrected some yodaspeak, bug #83077 - -- Some more sanity fixes - -- Translation updates (Christian Rose, Jordi Mallach, Ole Laursen, - Peteris Krisjanis, Kjartan Maraas, Zbigniew Chyla, GNOME PL Team, me) - -2.4.0.1 stuff: - -- Fix killing other processes including the session when greeter settings - were touched, fixes #84717 - -- Don't run the gdmwm when there is a windowmanager present, fixes #86620 - -- Fix some Solaris compilation issues, fixes #86679 - -- Don't clear env for chooser, greeter and setup and run gdm itself from - a script, fixes #87387 - -- Properly center windows - -- Fix gdmchooser to actually work - -- Install missing files from the happygnome theme, fixes #86264 - (Frederic Crozat) - -- Fix non-xdmcp compile, fixes #85681, and properly test for - xdmcp, fixes #86607 (Mike Castle, me) - -- Fix #85785 by linking with -lcrypt as the first thing - -- Fix wiping the pid file by mistake on config file errors - -- On linux do better checking for stale /var/run/gdm.pid files, - by checking /proc (Jim Bray, me) - -- Many random fixes all around - -- If we can't write the user authentication in the home directory - use the fallback file (say due to out of disk space errors) - -- Add a 'handled' flag for servers (see default gdm.conf for some - notes on how to use it) that makes it possible to run unhandled - X servers (such as X terminals). - -- Fix finding the parent process (Oswald Buddenhagen) - -- Translation updates (Yanko Kaneti, Jesus Bravo Alvarez, - Ole Laursen, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo, Christophe Merlet, - Vincent van Adrighem, Hasbullah Bin Pit, Pablo Saratxaga, - Tőivo Leedjärv, Changwoo Ryu, Duarte Loreto, Andrew V. Samoilov, - Dmitry G. Mastrukov, Peteris Krisjanis, Borislav Aleksandrov) - -2.4.0.0 stuff: - -- New theme, "Happy GNOME" by Steve Fox - -- Translation updates (Christophe Merlet, Jarkko Ranta, Mantas Kriauciunas, - Carlos Perello Marin, Kjartan Maraas, Tőivo Leedjärv, Jordi Mallach, - Stanislav Visnovsky, Zbigniew Chyla, GNOME PL Team, Christian Rose) - -2.3.90.6 stuff: - -- SECURITY FIX! After an automatic session the display wasn't reinited - so clients could be left hanging around. This is only present in the - 2.3.90.x series and only affects automatic logins. - -- Automatic login is actually done on the first login only and Timed - login is actually done only on the first display (as it all should be) - -- Translation updates (Germán Poo Caamańo, Jordi Mallach, - Hasbullah Bin Pit, Tőivo Leedjärv) - -2.3.90.5 stuff: - -- Some work on making the language setup more sane and integrating - the graphical and the standard greeter language setups - -- Added more untranslated language names (Changwoo Ryu, me) - -- The graphical greeter now actually works with timed login stuff, - does enable/disable during configuration, and gives closing pam - comments after login is completed (such as that your pw will expire - or such) - -- The timed login time is now increased on any key or mouse press on - any widget. - -- The shipped locale.alias now lists all the languages we know, - and doesn't include any encodings or dups or other random garbage - -- Xnest is now being passed the -kb argument to disable the xkb - extension on the Xnest as this just causes problems apparently. (#66610) - -- The gdmXnestchooser command now actually uses the command you gave it - in the config file or on the command line - -- The graphical greeter is actually translated, plus a bunch of - other translation issues are fixed (#82549) - -- Possible crashes and random weird errors fixed by not using g_print - for communication (since that does charset conversions which we don't - want to do) - -- Translation updates (Jarkko Ranta, Stanislav Visnovsky, Kjartan Maraas, - Ole Laursen, Zbigniew Chyla, GNOME PL Team, Carlos Perelló Marín, - Christian Rose, Vincent van Adrighem, Duarte Loreto, me) - -2.3.90.4 stuff: - -- IMPORTANT: Change the behaviour of session scripts. Now gdm will - automatically start writing output to ~/.xsession-errors for EVERY - session file and not just in the Xsession file. Well every file - except the failsafe ones (including sessions named 'Failsafe') - -- More error checking. Check if we messed up writing the auth stuff - and give an error, also check if the session lasted less then 10 - seconds in which case give a warning rather then silently fail. - -- Don't init gnome in the daemon, this should fix a whole bunch - of random issues and crashes. Also don't init gnome in the - chooser. - -- Use setresuid to fix setuid problem with the failsafe gtk stuff. - -- Browser now gets the pictures through a pipe rather then through - temporary files. This is much nicer. - -- Fix hostname and interface querying. Should work better on "broken" - setups now. - -- Fix focus issues on the failsafe stuff - -- Fix autologin stuff (should fix #68160) - -- Use BSDs setusercontext if found. This is not fully tested as - I don't have a BSD box. - -- Add greeter/MinimalUID which is the minimal UID to show in the - browser and in the dropdown lists in gdmsetup - -- Don't exclude people from the browser that have '*' in the password - field as that could be legitimate - -- Fix xnest flexi server on nfs mounted home dirs with root squashing. - This required a protocol change to the socket protocol, but I don't - think anything outside of gdmflexiserver is using it (and it will - fail gracefully anyway), fixes #82122 - -- Some random UI issues fixed (#80038, and others) - -- The graphical greeter is now translatable (and thus translated into - more languages) - -- I bet no one reads these long NEWS sections anyway. - -- Photosetup now always copies to .gnome/photo, even if the picture - is in the pixmaps directory - -- Few crashes fixed - -- Build fixes, among others #79374 (Christophe Merlet, Carlos Perello - Marin, me) - -- Translation updates (Vincent van Adrighem, Duarte Loreto, Kjartan Maraas, - Stanislav Visnovsky, Christian Rose, Zbigniew Chyla, GNOME PL Team, - Ole Laursen, Young-Ho Cha, Changwoo Ryu, Abel Cheung, Simos Xenitellis, me) - -2.3.90.3 stuff: - -- The instant apply, no crack, setup proggie (gdmsetup) now works, - gdmconfig is removed (Check out the gdmgreeter theme selector, though - we only have one theme now) - -- Fix the i18n encoding issues. non-english users can now log in! Yay! - The daemon is back to not using UTF-8 but the locale specific encoding - because of fun GConv cache crack. All the utf8 stuff is done on the - greeter side now - -- Leak fixes #80888 (Ali Akcaagac, me) - -- Gdmphotosetup fixiage #80835 - -- Look into other dirs for an X server, and use /usr/X11R6/bin/X by default - #80829 (Ali Akcaagac, me) - -- Check for socklen_t #79373 - -- Fix focus on the Failsafe xterm session - -- Randomly scattered fixes - -- Greeter themes now have info files, so that we can have some info about a - theme for the theme browser - -- Bunch of greeter work to bring it more up to speed with gdmlogin, though - it's still not quite there yet. - -- Add an icon for the photo chooser 'capplet' (Seth) - -- Some dialog fixes all around - -- Fix gdmchooser, use a completely new looking glade file - -- Translation updates (Pablo Saratxaga, Zbigniew Chyla, Stanislav Visnovsky, - Christophe Merlet, Ole Laursen, Kjartan Maraas, Changwoo Ryu, - Germán Poo-Caamańo, Fatih Demir, Duarte Loreto, Abel Cheung, - Jarkko Ranta) - -Issues with this version: - -- You need a very new libgnomeui to run gdmsetup else it'll crash - -- The graphical greeter (gdmgreeter) is still not where it should be - functionality wise, but it is mostly usable as a login window - -2.3.90.2 stuff: - -- LOTS of new greeter work (Alex, Jonathan) - -- Some internal reordering, and preparing for on-the-fly configuration updates - for some keys - -- Start of a new configurator. One without crack (George's definition of - what's crack applies). It doesn't actually work yet. But then again - gdmconfig doesn't work either. - -- Some UI/String Fixes #77151, #73817 and others (Benedikt Roth, - Gaute Lindkvist, Karsten Weiss, Abel Cheung, Havoc) - -- Correct handling of signal blocking. We just unblock everything before - running a child regardless of how we were started. - -- Some leaks plugged - -- Ability to have a different greeter for remote connections - -- Install .desktop files appropriately (Seth) - -- Estonian entries added (Tőivo Leedjärv) - -- Fix some localization stuff. Use translated strings on the console only - if we can verify that it's UTF8 - -- Build fixes (Jacob, Alex, Gediminas Paulauskas) - -- Updates from the 2.2 branch (Kjartan Maraas, Pablo Saratxaga, Karsten Weiss, - me) - -- Translation updates (Vincent van Adrighem, Ole Laursen, Changwoo Ryu, - Ole Laursen, Tőivo Leedjärv, Zbigniew Chyla, Duarte Loreto, Christian Rose, - Stanislav Visnovsky, Jarkko Ranta, Hasbullah Bin Pit, Khairulanuar Abd Majid, - Kjartan Maraas, Christian Rose, Wang Jian, Wang Li, Valek Filippov, - Carlos Perello Marin, Lucas 'Basurero' Vieites, Stanislav Brabec, - Abel Cheung) - -2.3.90.1 stuff: - -- All changes up to 2.2.5.4 - -- Fix moving of login window - -- Make welcome message surrounded by <big><big><big> to make - it ... big - -- Fix usage of glade2, so that chooser now works, and gdmconfig crashes - later in the startup then in 2.3.90.0 - -- Face browser now works again - -- Fixed some typos and message cleanups (Kjartan Maraas) - -- Updated translations (Christian Rose, Duarte Loreto, Stanislav Visnovsky, - Zbigniew Chyla, Pablo Saratxaga, GNOME PL Team, Kjartan Maraas, - Jarkko Ranta) - -2.2.5.4 stuff: - -- SECURITY FIX! Make sure the egid is reset to the user gid before - starting a session. This could present a security risk under a - certain circumstances, that is if your /bin/sh does not drop privileges. - It also fixes the failsafe gnome session - -- PositionX and PositionY now take negative values that work - like standard X geometries. A negative value is an offset from - the right/lower edge. - -2.3.90.0 stuff: - -- All changes up to 2.2.5.3 - -- Ported to GNOME 2, still uses some deprecated widgets and such, - but it should be fully functional - -- A little bit of code restructuring and cleanup - -- Add option to preserve LD_ variables to allow easy debugging - -- Docs use XML and bunch of other doc updates (Trevor Curtis) - -- Removed font for welcome message, the welcome message now supports - standard pango xml-like markup - -- Failsafe gui dialogs are pure gtk now and do not require an exec - -- Translation updates mostly overlap 2.2.5.3. It's also probably - all broken now, I think we need to convert to utf8 or some such - -2.2.5.3 stuff: - -- PAM support revamped. Session open and credentials are done before - we do anything else. Also we work on one pam handle only, and - yet again switch setcred/open_session order (Karsten Petersen, me) - -- Autologin is now done with a separate pam configuration. gdm-autologin - service. This just logs anyone in without asking for a password, - but this makes autologin work with some pam setups. Of course - you must now modify gdm-autologin in addition to 'gdm' if you have - some weird pam setup. - -- Fix gdmconfig saving of server definitions - -- Add possibility of multiline welcome message by use of '\n' - -- Use the text dialog interface for more errors including the toplevel - loop of death - -- Fix a USR2 race in the slave if the main daemon is already dead - (this makes 'killall gdm' work right) - -- Translation updates (Kjartan Maraas, Gustavo Maciel Dias Vieira, - Abel Cheung, Christian Rose, Duarte Loreto, Christian Meyer, - Stanislav Visnovsky, Peteris Krisjanis, Artis Trops, Akira TAGOH, - Göran Uddeborg, Ole Laursen) - -2.2.5.2 stuff: - -- If multiple local servers are setup, then wait until one has started - plus 3 more seconds before starting the next one, this prevents such - not-good things such as full lockups happening - -- Fix crash of greeter for timed login setups - -- Keep 4 old copies of the X server logs to make debugging bad - X setups easy - -- The WM now supports NoInput windows, which improves gdm - accessibility and makes it possible to run things like xscribble - (Crossfire (from debian bug report) and moi) - -- Minor leak fixes - -- spec file updates (Gregory Leblanc) - -- Translation updates (Roy-Magne Mo, Carlos Perelló Marín, - Christophe Merlet, Khairulanuar Abd Majid) - -2.2.5.1 stuff: - -- IMPORTANT: XKeepsCrashing now has different semantics, - all the logic of crash recovery is no in this script including - gettext and finding the configurator and all that. So - the script no longer takes any arguments. If you have custom - versions of this script you will have to change them to reflect - this. As a result of this XKeepsCrashingConfigurators is gone - -- Skipped a version number for greater stability - -- By default also look for XFdrake as a configurator on X crashes - to work on mandrake out of the box - -- pam setup is now the same as in the redhat and mandrake - packages - -- If the X server crashes within 5 seconds of telling us it's - ready, still treat it as a crash, since things like inability - to open mouse makes it die after it tells us it's OK - -- XKeepsCrashing now handles inability to open mouse and - offers to run mouseconfig (or if that's not available - just the x configurator it finds) - -- Fix crash on FreeBSD with setenv with NULL (just treat NULL - as empty string) (Heath Nielson) - -- DESTDIR fixes (Frodo Looijaard) - -- gdmopen now sets VT_NUMBER env var for it's child - -- Focus issues fixed in gdmwm (the windowmanager of the greeter) - -- Check for existance of a home directory. If it doesn't exist, - the user has the option of canceling the login or logging in with - the home dir set to root. - -- Many MANY races fixed in handling of extra processes. Gdm should - now always clean up after itself well if killed. And it will - now not screw up if the child processes die too quickly. - -- Some configure.in and build fixes, require libglade explicitly in - the configure script and also make console helper enabled by default - if it's possible to use it - -- gdmXnestchooser now has quite a few more modes of operation, in effect - it can now be used as a generic Xnext launching program. It also - by default reads the Xnest command from gdm.conf - -- Remove VerboseAuth configuration variable as it was utterly useless, - and actually resulted in usability degradation when on. - -- Include our own gdmmktemp like the mktemp program for shell scripts - -- Fix stuff on console with gdmopen by printing \033(K onto the console - before it does anything else - -- Work with KDE face directories (username.png rather then username) as - well (Mandrake) - -- Accept keypad enter in the greeter (Mandrake) - -- Run ssh-agent if it is found available and not yet running in the Gnome - session file (Ximian) - -- Errors from pam go into a separate dialog and information messages that - come just before login are also in a dialog so that the user gets - a chance to see them - -- Use the pam wait time on errors, if available, this fixes a bug where - the wait time was doubled because it was both the pam one and the - gdm one. - -- Make sure the cookie file is full of all different local addresses - and don't whack out if the local hostname is not resolvable. Also - if we still can't start the server, tell the user rather then giving - up quietly. - -- Always print the "Please enter your username" message - -- Translation updates (Ole Laursen, Stanislav Visnovsky, Christophe Merlet, - Peteris Krisjanis, Artis Trops, Marius Andreiana, Christian Rose, - Zbigniew Chyla) - -2.2.4.3 stuff: - -- Use PAM_ESTABILISH_CRED for pam_setcred - -- Parsed login names are now reparsed every time - -- Minor fixes and greater paranoia all over the place - -- XDMCP timeouts default to 15 instead of 30 seconds - -- Autoconf 2.50 / Automake 1.5 compatibility (Ali Akcaagac) - -- Translations updated (Zbigniew Chyla, Kjartan Maraas, Ole Laursen, - Fatih Demir, me, Stanislav Visnovsky, Gustavo Maciel Dias Vieira) - -2.2.4.2 stuff: - -- Keep a global pam handle around again, and add a pam conversation - dialog when no greeter is up. Set RHOST and RUSER and fix some - other pam related things. Hopefully we're more pam correct now. - -- Have an option that forces 24-hour clock even in locales which - like 12-hour clock (Terje Rosten, Ali Akcaagac, me) - -- Change how FLEXI_XNEST works, be more paranoid in who we allow to - run an an xnest, and we always run as the user who requested it. - It requires that the user has a .Xauthority file with an - MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 for the current display. - -- Fix many obscure fork races - -- Now exports a procol version environmental variable to the greeter - so that it's easier to use external greeters. - -- Ensure that /tmp/.ICE-unix exists - -- X servers now run with root gid and not gdm gid - -- Ugly fix to the toolbar deadlock problem, very VERY evil, but - it's really a bug in gnome-dock - -- When we run a flexi console server, lock the screen with xscreensaver. - Also throttle xscreensaver so that it doesn't take extra CPU power. - -- Yet another extension to XDMCP, which makes the MANAGED_FORWARD - stuff more reliable on bad networks. It is however 100% compatible - with 2.2.4.1 in operation. - -- Minor fixes all over the place - -- Documentation updates (Trevor Curtis) - -- Translations updated (Zbigniew Chyla, Kjartan Maraas, Ole Laursen, - Stanislav Visnovsky, Yukihiro Nakai, Roy-Magne Mo, Carlos Perelló Marín, - Pablo Saratxaga, Christian Rose, Christophe Merlet, Christopher R. Gabriel) - -2.2.4.1 stuff: - -- X server editing now actually works, and gdmconfig produces - correct config files. DOH! - -- X server editing now enforces strict order of servers (it only sort - of did before) - -- XDMCP can now run a script to get a custom WILLING status script - (Matt Forrest, me) - -- Change the gdm extension protocol to XDMCP. The MANAGED_FORWARD - was being used in a wrong way and required a slight protocol change, - as this is a non-required part of the protocol nothing will break. - -- When declining a connection, give statement why it is, to aid in - debugging your XDMCP setup. - -- Implement the (previously documented) xdmcp/DisplaysPerHost - configuration option. So now the default is one connection per - host, so you may need to change this in your setup if you need - more. - -- Fix one case of s/login/username/ in the greeter and in XDMCP mode, - the button to kill the login is "Disconnect" and not "Quit" - -- The reference doc updated a tad, still somewhat out of date, - the configurator documentation has not been updated however. - -- Many, many fixes mostly leaks, some minor some bigger - -- Updated translations (Christian Rose, Abel Cheung, Kjartan Maraas, - Zbigniew Chyla) - -2.2.4.0 stuff: - -- New unix socket protocol for controlling the daemon from outside. - -- A way to add servers at runtime by any local user. So called flexible - servers. That is implementing a "New login" kind of thing. This new - server can also be a nested login with Xnest. In which case anyone on - an X connection can run this. All without the use of XDMCP and opening - up an extra TCP port. This is more user friendly and also this way the - daemon can manage the servers better. - -- PAM usage more correct with respect to setting credentials. This makes - pam_group actually work, and probably some other things - -- Implement a vt open (gdmopen) alternative inside gdm itself. This - version is stripped down version of open and it works much better for - gdm's purposes of it. - -- Implement a local helper (if pam is used) for the password asking - when attempting to run X configuration. This is more friendly - and more correct. - -- Keep track of all new helper processes and kill them off on exit. - Previously some of these could be left hanging. - -- When a display number is busy, ask the user about starting the - server on an empty display number (if no gdmopen or dialog, just - do it) - -- Keep track of the VT (on linux) of local servers and allow programs to - query this list through the socket protocol. Perhaps to offer the - user a menu and a gui way to switch between logins. - -- More thorough closing of file descriptors. - -- Also look for 'whiptail' when looking for a 'dialog' implementation - -- In the photo setup, don't require a browser to be on. In that case, - just warn the user. - -- Some doc fixes (Kjartan Maraas) - -- Added Galician (gl_ES) and Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) to the menu - (Jesus Bravo Alvarez) - -- Various minor fixes. - -- RPM Epoch raised to 1 since it seems others have been in an Epoch arms - race. - -- Translation updates (Ole Laursen, Christophe Merlet, Abel Cheung, - Jesus Bravo Alvarez, Pablo Saratxaga, Andras Timar, Zbigniew Chyla, - Kjartan Maraas, Marius Andreiana, me) - -2.2.3.2 stuff: - -- printf/syslog format bugs fixed which fixes possible security - problems (Cyril Diakhate, Abel Cheung, Havoc, me) - -- Some fixes coming from the Gnome usability report (Heeten Choxi, me) - -- Nicer titlebar - -- Run /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d from the Gnome session - -- RUNNING_UNDER_GDM defined for init scripts (Owen) - -- Embrace and extend XDMCP so that choosing works nicer. No worries, still - 100% compatible with XDMCP 1.0 - -- In the redhat package don't use the GiveConsole/TakeConsole since they're - not kosher, pam does this for us, for standard, non rpm build this was never - done - -- s/Halt/Shut down/ - -- Don't ask to save Failsafe sessions - -- When user doesn't exist, ask for a password anyway - -- Various minor fixes (Owen, me) - -- Translation updates (Stanislav Visnovsky, Zbigniew Chyla, Christian Rose, - Faith Demir, Abel Cheung, Christian Meyer, Kjartan Maraas, - Christopher R. Gabriel, Yukihiro Nakai, me) - -2.2.3.1 stuff: - -- file descriptor leaks and messups dealt with, making gdm2 work again - on debian and probably others (Ryan Murray, me) - -- Posibility of a "soft" restart, that is scheduling a restart when all logins - end. This is now possible from gdmconfig. - -- A new "protocol" for the slave to talk to the daemon by way of a fifo. - -- The spec file now schedules a soft restart on install (this will work only - for upgrades from 2.2.3.1 to higher versions obviously) - -- Handle the slave process crashing much more gracefully. And be generally - more thorough in killing our children. - -- Killing an X server while running is no longer treated as an X crash by gdm - -- Other cleanups and minor fixes - -- Translation updates (Christian Rose, Ole Laursen, Zbigniew Chyla) - -2.2.3 stuff: - -- Various XDMCP fixes, including a working indirect queries (the host chooser). - Plus various chooser enhancements and fixes - -- The "window manager" better handles window positioning, to make programs - like gkrellm behave more sanely. Also follow the motif decoration hint. - -- The internal error/info dialog uses GNOME to look prettier and is centered - -- Build xdmcp only if the libs exist - -- Handle upgrades more sanely. - -- Scripts get correct environment - -- On failsafe xterm session just warp the pointer to transfer focus, - this makes pointer focus still work - -- An option to always restart server rather then just reinitializing it - when a user logs out - -- XDMCP login box has a "Quit" menu item which kills the connection, - useful if you chose a box you don't know the login to. - -- Now handles busy server by notifying the user instead of treating it - as a server crash - -- Docs and configurator up to date to all new configuration keys - (Trevor Curtis, me) - -- Better pam and console helper configure setup and other configure fixes - -- Add ja and zh_TW.Big5 translations again (Karl Eichwalder, me) - -- Assorted fixes, cleanups (Kjartan, Nalin Dahyabhai, me) - -- spec file cleanup (Dean Scott) - -- Translations (Marius Andreiana, Christian Rose, Ole Laursen, - Karl Eichwalder, "R.I.P. Deaddog", Christian Meyer, - Pablo Saratxaga, Kjartan Maraas, Christophe Merlet, - Khairulanuar Abd Majid, me) - -2.2.2.1 stuff: - -- SECURITY FIX! Rebake cookies before reinitializing the local X server. - Only local X servers are affected, this bug allowed an attacker to log in, - save his cookie, which would then be used for the user who logs in next. - -- Fix a race preventing users to log in sometimes - -- Ability to turn of failsafe and chooser sessions (Havoc) - -- Fix mit cookie usage to not clobber cookies containing zeros - -- Fix remote XDMCP authentication - -- Pinging for XDMCP sessions to detect if they're dead - -- Saving current gnome session is done from gdm (gnome-core HEAD no longer - saves it) - -- Don't change utmp from Pre/Post session scripts - -- PAM related fixes - -- Better handling of X failures - -- Nicer iconify button - -- gdmphotosetup permissions fixes - -- Always add POSIX/C locale setting to language menu - -- Nicer minimize button - -- Ignore .rpmorig files - -- Other fixes - -- Translations (Stanislav Visnovsky, Kjartan Maraas, me) - -2.2.2 stuff: - -- When X keeps crashing ask if we should run the X configuration - (after asking for the root password of course:) - -- Fixup shadow and crypt authentication methods - -- Fix session directory reading in greeter (Rémi Cohen-Scali) - -- Fix the -lwrap and other configure issues - -- Better "management" of login screen windows - -- The face browser actually works now (Rémi Cohen-Scali, me) - -- A clock on the login window (Jonathan, me) - -- The language list is now translated - -- A small proggie to set your gdm browser face - -- Accept clicks by the right button as if they are the first button, - we don't know if the user is left or right handed yet - -- Background color seeps through transparent images and allow limiting - remote logins to only a color backgrounds - -- Tooltips on things to make the greeter easier to understand - -- AllowConfig now on by default - -- Properly runs with a missing gdm.conf - -- Remove old failsafe stuff and use the new builtin failsafes, which - are much nicer - -- Saner focus on all gdm windows, and give the failsafe xterm focus - -- Gnome and Xsession default sessions now setup xresources and read in - keymaps - -- Default is default if no default was set and it exists (confusing huh? :) - -- More Xinerama support (backgrounds, error dialogs, xterm failsafe session) - -- Greeter segfault fixed when no language file present - -- Anti-hosification measures. GDM will now try to do something to allow - itself to be fixed on some mistakes. Rather then just aborting and leaving - crack in the syslog. And gdmconfig let's you see hosification as it happens - -- Updated fixed icon entry - -- gdm-restart script to automate restarting of gdm by HUPing the main daemon - -- Mucho fixes - -- Bunch more tooltips on things - -- Documentation is here! (Trevor Curtis, me) - -- Updated translations (Khairulanuar Abd Majid, Christian Meyer, Ole Laursen, - Kjartan Maraas, Christian Rose, Fatih Demir, Stanislav Visnovsky, - Emese Kovacs, Matthias Warkus, Kjartan Maraas, Jarkko Ranta, me) - -2.2.1 stuff: - -- Keyboard navigation in the greeter (Ryan Murray) - -- debian build stuff (Ian McKellar) - -- Ability to set the background color/pixmap, - now requires GdkPixbuf because of this. - -- The root overlay window is gone now and we have real focus - management. In effect gdmlogin is a VERY simple windowmanager. - -- Ability to choose a specific GNOME session - -- Ability to run the configurator directly on the login screen, - which requires a root password of course (Disabled by default) - -- An editor for the Sessions directory in gdmconfig (Lee) - -- Title bar can be hidden by configuration - -- The icon entry is now sane with the panel icon entry hack - -- If no LANG variable set gdm starts out in the DefaultLocale - from the config file - -- Now non-verbose mode is actually useful and verbose mode - is still security safe. - -- For consistency AllowRoot now works on pam setups as well, - also a setting just for remote root logins. - -- Timed login, you can set up gdm to log in a certain user on the - first local display after a specified timeout if no one logs in - (me, Jim Bray) - -- Bunch of other fixes (me, Ryan Murray) - -- Security fixes, crash fixes and an increase in general paranoia - (me, Ryan Murray) - -- More fault/bad setting tolerant all around - -- Translation updates (Christian Meyer, Valek Filippov, Kjartan Maraas, - Ole Laursen, Jarkko Ranta, Fatih Demir, Stanislav Visnovsky, Martin Norbäck, - Christian Rose, Yuri Syrota, Christophe Merlet, Pablo Saratxaga, me, - Ian McKellar) - -2.2.0 stuff: - -- gdmconfig now works with more fontsizes (me, Lee) - -- Another minor xinerama fix - -- Fixup the pam message voodoo, so that it now is at least functional even - though it may not be pretty nor 100% correct. - -- Initial gdmconfig documentation (Trevor Curtis, Lee) - -- gdmconfig now correctly handles RelaxPerms (Lee) - -- gdmconfig has now nice pam console helper setup (Lee) - -- gladify/beautify gdmchooser (Lee) - -- gdmchooser now apparently works with xdm (Matthias Clasen) - -- Better specfile (Gregory Leblanc) - -- Packagers should read the comment on end of config/gdm.conf.in (especially - debian people) - -- Configuration file now does not force the adobe version of helvetica, and - postgres and pvm users are excluded by default (Vlad Hrachev) - -- i18n fixes (Gediminas Paulauskas) - -- New easter egg - -- Bunch of minor fixes - -- Translation updates (Yukihiro Nakai, Carlos Perelló Marín, Martin Norbäck, - Fatih Demir, Simos Xenitellis, Kjartan Maraas, Christian Meyer, - Christophe Merlet, Stanislav Visnovsky, me) - -2.0.99 stuff: - -- Cursor set to pointer rather then left as "X" - -- Minor login minimize button cleanup (Jonathan Blandford) - -- gdmconfig UI update and fixes (Lee Mallabone) - -- Easter egg update - -- Fixed restarting with HUP when xdmcp is on - -- Login and Chooser fixed up for the true/false vs. 1/0 change (Tim Jansen) - -- doc updates for true/false vs 1/0 fixups (Tim Jansen) - -- Translation updates (Yukihiro Nakai, Christophe Merlet, Gustavo Maciel Dias - Vieira, Fatih Demir, Simos Xenitellis, Kjartan Maraas, Stanislav Visnovsky, - Pablo Saratxaga, Jarkko Ranta) - -2.0.98.1 stuff: - -- a minor Xinerama fix for dialogs - -- small XDMCP fix, it apparently works for some people (Matthias Clasen) - -- create config files during configure time (Peter Teichman, me) - -- Mucho translation updates (Christian Rose, Dan Damian, Simos Xenitellis, - Szabolcs Ban, Kjartan Maraas, Christophe Merlet, Christian Meyer) - -2.0.98 stuff: - -- spec file actually works (Lee Mellabone) - -- Bigger! Better! Faster! gdmconfig. Much cooler and easier to use - (Lee Mellabone) - -- More xinerama fixes (Tim Jansen) - -- A bit more xdmcp fixes which still don't make it run - -- Bunch of other fixes and cleanups - -- New translations (Stanislav Visnovsky, Jarkko Ranta, Valek Filippov, - Simos Xenitellis) - -2.0.97.1 stuff: - -- Don't die on non-xinerama supporting display if compiled with xinerama lib - -- First cut at a spec file for RedHat 6.x (may work on 7.0 as well maybe) - -2.0.97 stuff: - -- Graphical configurator in Foot/System/Gdm Configurator, - or run "gdmconfig" (Lee Mellabone) - -- i18n and greeter/slave communication fixes (ChiDeok Hwang) - -- int vs. bool mess fixed up in the configuration files - -- Use the language from the LANG variable as the default and use - the one from gdm.conf as backup only - -- Verbose authentication on by default and don't reveal information - on verbose authentication. I may remove this option altogether - -- Slower quiver (looks cooler:) - -- Reset on main process HUP signal by reexecing self - -- Xinerama support for centering the login dialogs (Tim Jansen) - -- Mucho fixes to loop of death stuff, race conditions and other such - fun things - -- Translations, fixes etc... - (Kjartan Maraas, Gediminas Paulasukas, ChiDeok Hwang, Stanislav Visnovsky, - Valek Filippov, and maybe others) - -2.0.96 stuff: - -- Multiple local display stuff should now work - -- Now autologs in only on the first display - -- Bunch of fixes for XDMCP but that still doesn't work, I need - help here I think - -- Local displays are now reset with SIGHUP rather then killed and - signals are set properly to begin with, this should actually help - with some buggy X servers I think. - -- Login window can be moved (has a titlebar), and this position can be - set from the config file (not saved however) - -- Bunch of cleanup and bugfixes - -Open issues: - -- XDMCP doesn't work - -- Autologin and i18n is not working well (always in english apparently) - -2.0.95 stuff: - -- Autologin (AutomaticLogin key in [daemon] section of gdm.conf) - This is a string key that if it's set then gdm will log in that - user without prompting on the first time it runs a local server. - Will not autologin "root" though as that would be dumb. - -- You can have your cursor anywhere while you log in, yay! - -- [greeter]/BackgroundProgram thingie. A program that is run from - the greeter and killed when the greeter exists. useful for things - that do some cool graphics on the root window. - -- If greeter keeps segfaulting, it will "unmanage" that display so that you - can actually log in on a console - -- Slave process is actually forked - -- Bugfixes galore - --George |