Ahh news... 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 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 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) - -U may now be used to clear the entry field. Now works like 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 insenitive 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 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 > /.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 /.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 wanker 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 /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 scalles 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 .png from the host image directory and not just - 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 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 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 on some all wankered pam setup. 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