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[Hadmut Danisch <hadmut@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Hi,

until recently gdm was a flexible and easy to configure desktop manager,
with a gdm.conf where you could easily configure different options, with
a good graphical frontend to configuration, and it offered options for
locales and keyboard mappings at login time. gdm was able to provide xdm
sessions directly and indirectly.

But now, all these good features seem to have gone. gdm provides a
really dumb login screen, no options except for the desktop method.

No configuration file, no xdm options, not even a man page.

What happened to gdm?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gdm 3.0.4-0ubuntu9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.13-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Aug 24 12:53:58 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110802.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gdm
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: gdm (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug oneiric

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/832674

Title:
  gdm is degenerating

Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Hi,

  until recently gdm was a flexible and easy to configure desktop
  manager, with a gdm.conf where you could easily configure different
  options, with a good graphical frontend to configuration, and it
  offered options for locales and keyboard mappings at login time. gdm
  was able to provide xdm sessions directly and indirectly.

  But now, all these good features seem to have gone. gdm provides a
  really dumb login screen, no options except for the desktop method.

  No configuration file, no xdm options, not even a man page.

  What happened to gdm?

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: gdm 3.0.4-0ubuntu9
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.13-generic 3.0.3
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Aug 24 12:53:58 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110802.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gdm
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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