Re: gnome 2 and gdm2
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 22:42, Praveen Kallakuri wrote:
> anyone been using gdm 2 and gnome 2?
> i recently upgraded my gnome packages to 2.2 and everything else using
> apt-get. installation was a breeze and i got real neat icons and
> desktop. however when i used gdmconfig to change the greeter from
> standard to graphical, everything froze. basically the gdm login sreen
> freezes into grey and nothing appears. i just have to kill gdm.
> there is a tip on gnome2.2 page about the splash screen freezing. but
> i think thats not my problem since the standard greeter works ok. can
> someone tell me what i am doing wrong? or is it buggy!
I've been happily using the gdm package that Sean Harshbarger put
together:
> In debian-gtk-gnome, Sean Harshbarger said:
>
> Just made the final gnome 2.2 upstream version of my ever so famous
> gdm package. Now we are at 2.4.1.3 proper. NOw can we get a vote to
> get it uploaded to mainstream ;-). Also don't forget to test out
> gdm-themes off the server as well.
deb http://harshy.homelinux.org/files/debian/ ./
It appears that Ryan Murray (the gdm maintainer) objects to uploading
the latest version of gdm into unstable because some parts of Gnome
won't build on some architectures.
Also, a PowerPC package is at:
deb http://home.wtal.de/petig/debian ./
Regards,
Andrew.
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