Bug#643634: restore nested login in gdm3

[dave bl]

On 28 September 2011 20:08, Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> wrote:
> Le mercredi 28 septembre 2011 à 19:12 +1000, david b a écrit :
>> Package: gdm3
>> Version: restore nested login in gdm3
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> Hi, I am a long time user of gdm nested logins. However, they do not
>> exist in gdm3 :( . Before(in 'gdm') I created new logins via the
>> command "gdmflexiserver -n" which would bring up another gdm login
>> window inside a Xephyr container. This functionality is rather useful,
>> partly because there isn't an apparmor XACE implementation at the
>> present time and party because it is (in general) a useful thing :p
>>
>> There is a bug filed in the upstream at
>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624370 with a patch to
>> restore the functionality it would be awesome if this was applied in
>> debian!
>
> The patch no longer applies to gdm 3.0, for various reasons. I haven’t
> had time yet to port it to the new version.
>
> Feel free to work on it and provide a new, working version of the patch
> for gdm 3.x. Help is always appreciated.

I'll give it a whirl in a bit :)  (which version should I target? - sid's or ? )
Also, I am not familiar with gtk or the gdm code base, so I don't know how
much progress I will make :)