Re: [debian-live-devel] xfce desktop needs some love

[Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:48:41 +0200
Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de> wrote:
> But "Gdm" is a Gnome program which pull 29 MByte of additonal
> packages on the Disk...  Also it loads many Gnome libs which
> are generaly undesired if someone use a "light" WindowManager
> like Xfce otherwise I would install the degktop-gnome.
> 
> I find "Gdm" misplaced and annoying if someone does not use Gnome.

I'm not saying it's not a good idea.  I'm just explaining why I can't just
subsitute wdm for gdm and have it work automatically.

If you want to help get debian-live + XFCE + Debian Jr. working well
without gdm, by all means do!

The place to start looking is in the Debian casper package in this file:

/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin

...
if chroot /root [ -f /etc/gdm/gdm-cdd.conf ]; then
    GDMCONF=/etc/gdm/gdm-cdd.conf
else
    GDMCONF=/etc/gdm/gdm.conf
fi

if chroot /root [ -f ${GDMCONF} ]; then
    if [ "${BUILD_SYSTEM}" == "Debian" ]; then
        # true hack ! -- nohar
        chroot /root cp /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf /etc/gdm/gdm.conf
    fi

    # Configure GDM autologin
    chroot /root sed -i \
        -e "s/^AutomaticLoginEnable=.*\$/AutomaticLoginEnable=true/" \
        -e "s/^AutomaticLogin=.*\$/AutomaticLogin=$USERNAME/" \
        -e "s/^TimedLoginEnable=.*\$/TimedLoginEnable=true/" \
        -e "s/^TimedLogin=.*\$/TimedLogin=$USERNAME/" \
        -e "s/^TimedLoginDelay=.*\$/TimedLoginDelay=10/" \
        ${GDMCONF}
fi


There is a similar section in the same file dealing with kdm.  I would
need the corresponding configs for wdm to autologin.  Can you help me
out, here?  At the very least I'd need a copy of a wdm config file that
does this.  If you can also modify the casper script yourself and test
build an xfce-junior livecd with the change, then that would save me a
lot of time!  If not, I can figure out the rest, but I can't guarantee
it will get the highest priority.

Thanks,
Ben
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