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@@ -413,6 +413,46 @@ gdm: .su.dominio
</sect2>
</sect1>
+ <sect1 id="consolekit">
+ <title>Support for ConsoleKit</title>
+
+ <para>
+ GDM includes support for publishing user login information with the user and login
+ session accounting framework known as ConsoleKit. ConsoleKit is able to keep track
+ of all the users currently logged in. In this respect, it can be used as a replacement
+ for the utmp or utmpx files that are available on most Unix-like operating systems.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ When GDM is about to create a new login process for a user it will call a privileged
+ method of ConsoleKit in order to open a new session for this user. At this time
+ GDM also provides ConsoleKit with information about this user session such as: the user ID,
+ the X11 Display name that will be associated with the session, the host-name from which the
+ session originates (useful in the case of an XDMCP session), whether or not this session
+ is local, etc. As the entity that initiates the user process, GDM is in a unique position
+ know and to be trusted to provide these bits of information about the user session. The use
+ of this privileged method is restricted by the use of D-Bus system message bus security policy.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ In the case where a user with an existing session and has authenticated at GDM and requests to
+ resume that existing session GDM calls a privileged method of ConsoleKit to unlock that
+ session. The exact details of what happens when the session receives this unlock signal is
+ undefined and session-specific. However, most sessions will unlock a screensaver in response.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ When the user chooses to log out, or if GDM or the session quit unexpectedly the user session
+ will be unregistered from ConsoleKit.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ If support for ConsoleKit is not desired it can be disabled at build time using the
+ --with-console-kit=no option when running configure.
+ </para>
+
+ </sect1>
+
<sect1 id="gdmsetupusage">
<title>Usar gdmsetup para configurar GDM</title>
@@ -4706,7 +4746,7 @@ homogeneous="bool"&gt;
</screen>
If <filename>distribution-foo-image.png</filename> is a valid image
filename it will be used. Otherwise distribution-blah-image.png will
- be used if valid.
+ be used if valid. This feature supported since 2.16.3.
</para>
</sect3>