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-10.1 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/gdm/3.38/gdm-3.38.2.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/gdm/3.38/gdm-3.38.2.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: ddc782eaf0b0345ee34fb396f67bd44d
Download size: 772 KB
Estimated disk space required: 35 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU
AccountsService-0.6.55, GTK+-3.24.25, ISO Codes-4.5.0, itstool-2.0.6, libcanberra-0.30, libdaemon-0.14, and Linux-PAM-1.5.1
gnome-session-3.38.0, gnome-shell-3.38.3, and Systemd-247
User Notes: http://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 \
-Dplymouth=disabled \
-Dgdm-xsession=true \
-Dpam-mod-dir=/lib/security .. &&
ninja
This package does not come with a usable test suite.
Now, as the root user:
ninja install
-Dinitial-vt=7: Use this switch to make
GDM start on VT7 instead of the
first free VT.
-Dplymouth=disabled: GDM
now explicitly requires plymouth to be installed. Use this switch
to disable this dependency.
-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.
Last updated on 2021-02-25 10:01:25 -0800