[lug] upgrading to f9: gdmsetup gone?

[Hugh Brown]

Redhat 5 made a similar switch.  gdm.conf got moved to /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf.  I created the changes I wanted in /etc/gdm/custom.conf and used /usr/share/gdm/*conf as a list of the options/documentation.  

It looks like after gdm 2.20, the gnome folks started a complete rewrite and gdmsetup hasn't been done yet.

I think the snippit from the forum should work, it's also possible that the rewrite means no one has gotten to the documentation yet (and something changed).

I'd also look for firewall or SELinux as possible culprits if the snippit doesn't allow remote gdm.

I've actually taken to using NoMachine for personal machines when I need a remote GUI environment.

Hugh

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:28:27AM -0600, Michael J. Hammel wrote:
> In older versions of Fedora you had to tell GDM to allows remote TCP
> connections.  Pre-F5 you edited gdm.conf.  In F5 and F7 you used
> gdmsetup and disabled the line that says "Deny TCP Connections to the X
> Server".  F9 has now changed things yet again.  But I can't find where
> it's been moved to or what the new procedure is.  I can use "ssh -X" to
> launch an xterm but doing ssh into a local user seems superfluous (thank
> you, Sean, for that word) when su would work just as well.
> 
> Googling shows that you edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf.  But I can find no
> documentation on what is supposed to go in this file.  Open source
> developers need to take classes on how to write *DOCUMENTATION!*  No man
> page for either gdm or gdm.conf (or custom.conf, though a man page on
> that would be silly since the file name is too generic).
> 
> Remember when it was just "xhost +<hostname>"?  Wasn't the desktop
> supposed to make users life easier?  
>   
> Does anyone know how to allow a "remote" user (re: not the one using the
> desktop at the moment) to connect to the desktop?  
> 
> Sidenote:  I also love how they're replacing inittab with endless shell
> scripts.  I get the feeling distro packaging is being run by Microsoft
> these days:  "Change it - they'll have to call someone for support!".
> Change is good, but only when necessary.  If it aint broke, don't fix
> it.  *sigh*  What the hell was wrong with inittab?
> 
> Note: before sending this I finally found a page on FedoraForum
> (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=448977&postcount=1) that
> says to try this:
> 
> > [xdmcp]
> > Enable=true
> > [security]
> > DisallowTCP=false
> > [daemon]
> > RemoteGreeter=/usr/libexec/gdmgreeter
> > 
> > Then run gdm-restart
> 
> as part of getting a VNC running though other googled pages says the
> [security] entry alone doesn't do anything.  I haven't tried this yet
> for ordinary remote user display on the local server since the upgraded
> machines are at home (work machines are not upgraded yet).  I also
> finally found some GDM configuration documentation, but it's somewhat
> sparse and doesn't descript the Security section at all (though it does
> list it - without explanation - in the link to the file schema):
> http://live.gnome.org/GDM/2.22/Configuration
> 
> I think I'm getting sick of GNOME.  And I don't want KDE either.  I may
> switch my desktops to XFce, or maybe to something like lxde
> (http://lxde.org/) that lets me stay in charge instead of letting
> desktop developers decide what kind of user I am.
> -- 
> Michael J. Hammel                                    Principal Software Engineer
> mjhammel at graphics-muse.org                           http://graphics-muse.org