GDM is a system service that is responsible for providing graphical logins and managing local and remote displays.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.0 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/gdm/40/gdm-40.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/gdm/40/gdm-40.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: fa32fee88d242ebf5d1c2fb69e74457e
Download size: 788 KB
Estimated disk space required: 36 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU
AccountsService-0.6.55, GTK+-3.24.30, ISO Codes-4.7.0, itstool-2.0.6, libcanberra-0.30, libdaemon-0.14, and Linux-PAM-1.5.1
gnome-session-40.1.1, gnome-shell-40.4, and Systemd-249
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gdm
It is recommended to have a dedicated user and group to take
control of the gdm
daemon after it is started. Issue the following commands as the
root
user:
groupadd -g 21 gdm && useradd -c "GDM Daemon Owner" -d /var/lib/gdm -u 21 \ -g gdm -s /bin/false gdm && passwd -ql gdm
Install GDM by running the following commands:
mkdir build && cd build && meson --prefix=/usr \ --buildtype=release \ -Dgdm-xsession=true .. && ninja
This package does not come with a usable test suite.
Now, as the root
user:
ninja install
--buildtype=release
:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.
-Dinitial-vt=7
: Use this switch to make
GDM start on VT7 instead of the
first free VT.
-Ddefault-pam-config=lfs
: Use this
switch if you did not create the /etc/lfs-release
file or distribution auto
detection will fail and you will be unable to use GDM.
-Dgdm-xsession=true
: This
enables the installation of the GDM Xsession file.
The GDM daemon is configured using the /etc/gdm/custom.conf
file. Default values are
stored in GSettings in the gdm.schemas
file. It is recommended that
end-users modify the /etc/gdm/custom.conf
file because the schemas
file may be overwritten when the user updates their system to
have a newer version of GDM.
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