Bug#274488: gdm.conf should offer few more controls
Osamu Aoki
Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>, 274488@bugs.debian.org
Sat, 2 Oct 2004 09:15:20 +0200
Package: gdm
Version: 2.6.0.4-1
Severity: wishlist
Although having choice for keymap and IM modules will be nice, there are
many complications if the feature enhancement is sought further.
Let's think "simplification" instead. This has higher priority as
"wishlist".
Please make sure to offer a way to limit choices offered by GDM.
For example, for locale, /etc/gdm/locale.conf does not control all the
entries. 3 entries exist even after creating empty one:
C
last
default
There should be a switch in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf to turn on/off these
entries, and maybe turn off language selection completely.
The same can be said for "Session" menu. Sometimes, too many choices
are not what admin wants user to have.
Osamu
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (??? please ignore ???)
Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii adduser 3.59 Add and remove users and groups
ii blackbox [x-window-manage 0.65.0-3 Window manager for X
ii debconf 1.4.38 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.10.23 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii fluxbox [x-window-manager 0.9.9-1 Highly configurable and low resour
ii gksu 1.2.1-3 graphical frontend to su
ii gnome-session 2.6.2-5 The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii gnome-terminal [x-termina 2.6.1-6 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii kterm [x-terminal-emulato 6.2.0-43 Multi-lingual terminal emulator fo
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-6 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.6.1-4 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libattr1 2.4.18-1 Extended attribute shared library
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-4 Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii libbonobo2-0 2.6.2-7 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.6.1-1 The Bonobo UI library
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.2-1 A high-quality block-sorting file
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-17 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libcroco3 0.6.0-2 a generic Cascading Style Sheet (C
ii libesd-alsa0 [libesd0] 0.2.34-1 Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) -
ii libgconf2-4 2.6.4-2 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgcrypt11 1.2.0-6 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libglade2-0 1:2.4.0-1 Library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.4.6-3 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-keyring0 0.2.1-3 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome2-0 2.6.1.2-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.6.1.1-2 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.6.1.1-4 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.6.2-2 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgnutls11 1.0.16-8 GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii libgpg-error0 1.0-1 library for common error values an
ii libgsf-1 1.10.1-1 Structured File Library - runtime
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.4.10-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii liborbit2 1:2.10.2-1.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpam-modules 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam-runtime 0.76-22 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpango1.0-0 1.4.1-3 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii librsvg2-2 2.7.2-5 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii libselinux1 1.16-2 SELinux shared libraries
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session Management
ii libtasn1-2 0.2.10-4 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii libwrap0 7.6.dbs-6 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxml2 2.6.11-3 GNOME XML library
ii metacity [x-window-manage 1:2.8.1-4 A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii wmaker [x-window-manager] 0.80.2-0.4 NeXTSTEP-like window manager for X
ii xbase-clients 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 miscellaneous X clients
ii xfce [x-window-manager] 3.8.18-2 The Cholesterol Free Desktop Envir
ii xfwm4 [x-window-manager] 4.0.6-1 window manager of the XFce project
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client libraries m
ii xterm [x-terminal-emulato 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X terminal emulator
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.2-1 compression library - runtime
-- debconf information:
gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm
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