Graphical Login For Pdaxrom

[Chero]

The fonts :
in the gdm.conf file I added "-dpi 100" to the X-session. When I don't, the fonts in the greeter are unreadable. When I do, the fonts in matchbox (and other WMs) are bigger.
You could try to remove all "-dpi 100" from /etc/gdm/gdm.conf. There is also a "gdm.conf.orig" in the same dir, backup gdm.conf, replace it with the orig-one, run gdmsetup and try again.

In xfce4.4 I solved this by putting my user-font to 8 pixels and qtconfig to 8 pixels (which is unreadable in the default setup, but quite nice with the gdm-setup).

Anyone else interested in helping to optimize this, please send me a PM ?

Chero.

[MONVMENTVM]

Yes... now it is working for me also... it was really bzip2 which was missing, as you said Chero.

Here is the full (hopefully) dependency list:
libbonobo, libgnomeui, libbonoboui, libgnome, (lib)gnome-keyring, gnome-vfs, bzip2, libglade, libgsf, libiconv, librsvg, orbit2


Still there are some problems which means just some tweaking I think.

Here is a picture of my first-time-gdm-on-Zaurus:

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[Chero]

Yes... now it is working for me also... it was really bzip2 which was missing, as you said Chero.

Here is the full (hopefully) dependency list:
libbonobo, libgnomeui, libbonoboui, libgnome, (lib)gnome-keyring, gnome-vfs, bzip2, libglade, libgsf, libiconv, librsvg, orbit2


Still there are some problems which means just some tweaking I think.

Here is a picture of my first-time-gdm-on-Zaurus:

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you selected the gnome theme with chooser - that one doesn't work yet - select another greeter and you'll be ok.

[Chero]

Yes... now it is working for me also... it was really bzip2 which was missing, as you said Chero.

Here is the full (hopefully) dependency list:
libbonobo, libgnomeui, libbonoboui, libgnome, (lib)gnome-keyring, gnome-vfs, bzip2, libglade, libgsf, libiconv, librsvg, orbit2


Still there are some problems which means just some tweaking I think.

Here is a picture of my first-time-gdm-on-Zaurus:

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(found using calcdepends)
gtk2, libgnomecanvas, libxml2, openssl can be added to that list

[jerrybme]

Ok, I got it working now with both matchbox & xfce4. My avatar was chosen for a reason  
The problem with the matchbox.desktop was it shouldn't be calling fbpanel-session, but rather startx. With startx it restarts the x server and the orientation and fonts size are fine. I've replaced the inittab and now it's being loaded automatically.

To get to the console, I made a simple script

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killall gdm-binary and setup a kill-gdm.desktop file that calls the script. This ugly hack will tide me over until Chero figures out the proper way to get to the console.

Jerry

[jerrybme]

Chero:
I've been using gdm for a while now without problems, one question though ->
How do you get it to remember which session was used last time?

I have to chose the session each time, as the default session seems to be gnome which of course fails..

TIA

[Chero]

Chero:
I've been using gdm for a while now without problems, one question though ->
How do you get it to remember which session was used last time?

I have to chose the session each time, as the default session seems to be gnome which of course fails..

TIA
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It should ask you to save the session you choose as the default one, or to leave the current default as it is. At least, that's how it works for me.

I created a new ipk (with all deps) and will upload it asap, but right now I'm testing some other rom, so please be patient.

Chero.

[jerrybme]

It should ask you to save the session you choose as the default one, or to leave the current default as it is.
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Hmm, it's not doing that. I'll have to poke around & see if I can figure out it's not doing that.

[vimes]

Chero:
I've been using gdm for a while now without problems, one question though ->
How do you get it to remember which session was used last time?

I have to chose the session each time, as the default session seems to be gnome which of course fails..

TIA
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=129135\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

It should ask you to save the session you choose as the default one, or to leave the current default as it is. At least, that's how it works for me.

I created a new ipk (with all deps) and will upload it asap, but right now I'm testing some other rom, so please be patient.

Chero.
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Chero, any news on gdm ipk for those of us to lazy to do all the manual stuff  

[Chero]

Chero:
I've been using gdm for a while now without problems, one question though ->
How do you get it to remember which session was used last time?

I have to chose the session each time, as the default session seems to be gnome which of course fails..

TIA
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=129135\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

It should ask you to save the session you choose as the default one, or to leave the current default as it is. At least, that's how it works for me.

I created a new ipk (with all deps) and will upload it asap, but right now I'm testing some other rom, so please be patient.

Chero.
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Chero, any news on gdm ipk for those of us to lazy to do all the manual stuff  
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The ipk is ready. But I'm still having some problems with some apps. An X-session that is compatible with gdm as well as pdaX should be created by someone who knows a lot about x-session-options.
I just got back from a camping trip, so give me a few days.

Chero.

[vimes]

The ipk is ready. But I'm still having some problems with some apps. An X-session that is compatible with gdm as well as pdaX should be created by someone who knows a lot about x-session-options.
I just got back from a camping trip, so give me a few days.

Chero.
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Cheers Chero.... hope you had a nice time on your trip, bar your car woes ;-)
I'm happy to test this if you need some more input with the ipk, just let me know.

[InSearchOf]

Chero, Let me know if you need any assistance with the .xsession config.

Late

[InSearchOf]

Hey chero... I apoligize for no responces to this recently... I just dropped back to beta3 2 days ago... I'm looking into the qpkg issue first...

I will keep you updated on the status...

Late

[uMP2k]

Just a bump, wondering if there has been any progress on this?

I am still trying ot get xfce4 working properly, but once I have that sorted then I think I would like to give this a try!

[rgrep]

I haven't tried GDM yet but I like the idea of a GUI login screen for pdaXrom.  Good work so far Chero!

A couple of thoughts/ideas:

1. To get to the text console you should just be able to switch virtual terminals, e.g. execute "chvt 1".  To get back to X use Fn-rightarrow.

(However I just tested his on beta1 and when I tried to switch back to X it just hung and when I ssh'd into my Zaurus and ran "chvt 1" it caused X to crash but the screen contents didn't change until I ran "startx" again.  I assume this is a bug in TinyX.)

2. My personal opinion is that starting the display manager from inittab is ugly and hard to manage.  I prefer the method I first saw in Debian where the DM is just started from a normal init script.  This makes it way easier to start and stop the DM and you don't have to edit inittab or muck around with runlevels just to disable X on boot.

Just my 2c.

Matt