Re: [gdm-list] Hiding Failsafe options under Session menu

[Greg Swift <gsml netops gvtc com>]

Awesome.

I can wait (mainly cause as kiosks thats way to much effort for 
maintaining them), but I really appreciate that.

-Greg

Brian Cameron wrote:
> Greg:
>
> Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I notice the problem too,
> and just fixed it in CVS head and the 2.14 branch. If you want to
> use the attached patch when you build GDM, it should fix your
> problem, or wait until the next 2.14 (stable)/2.15 (unstable)
> release.
>
> Brian
>
>
> > To preface:
> >
> > I have looked around and the only instance of this issue that I have 
> > found was another user having the exact same problem with no solution.
> > We are both trying to make a kiosk with Fedora Core 5. I realize that 
> > this could be a FC5 issue, so I am going to describe the issue, and 
> > ask if anyone on this list not using FC5 is having the issue. If you 
> > aren't, I'll go figure out who to report it to w/ the Fedora Project. 
> > (My reasoning here is that I could go ask them all day, and since 
> > they would be running FC5's gnome 2.14, they would all have the 
> > issue, where as you nice people are probably not.).
> >
> > With that out of the way...
> >
> > In GDM's custom.conf, under the [greeter] section there are two 
> > options that do not seem to be working, here is the excerpt of their 
> > default states (on FC5) from <share>/gdm/defaults.conf
> >
> > ShowGnomeFailsafeSession=false
> > #ShowXtermFailsafeSession=true
> >
> > However these are set, they still show under the Session selection. I 
> > enabled debug, and it appeared to be reading the settings properly (I 
> > don't have a copy of the log right now cause that box is in 
> > transport), just not acting on it.
> >
> > Anyone not running FC5's build of Gnome 2.14 experiencing this issue?
> >
> > The most recent RPM versions from FC5 that I believe are related:
> >
> > gnome-session-2.14.1-1.fc5.1
> > gdm-2.14.4-1.fc5.1
> >
> > Thanks for your time.
> >
> > -Greg
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Index: gdm2/gui/gdmsession.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/gnome/gdm2/gui/gdmsession.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.10
> diff -u -r1.10 gdmsession.c
> --- gdm2/gui/gdmsession.c	8 Feb 2006 00:56:49 -0000	1.10
> +++ gdm2/gui/gdmsession.c	12 May 2006 19:43:42 -0000
> @@ -111,7 +111,6 @@
>      GdmSession *session = NULL;
>      gboolean some_dir_exists = FALSE;
>      gboolean searching_for_default = TRUE;
> -    gboolean show_xterm_failsafe;
>      struct dirent *dent;
>      char **vec;
>      char *name;
> @@ -275,7 +274,6 @@
>  	gdm_common_error ("%s: Session directory <%s> not found!",
>  		"gdm_login_session_init", ve_sure_string
>  		 (gdm_config_get_string (GDM_KEY_SESSION_DESKTOP_DIR)));
> -	show_xterm_failsafe     = TRUE;
>  	session_dir_whacked_out = TRUE;
>      }
>  
> @@ -284,14 +282,11 @@
>  		ve_sure_string (gdm_config_get_string (GDM_KEY_SESSION_DESKTOP_DIR)));
>  
>  	    session_dir_whacked_out = TRUE;
> -	    show_xterm_failsafe     = TRUE;
>  	    default_session         = g_strdup (GDM_SESSION_FAILSAFE_GNOME);
>      }
>  
> -    if (gdm_config_get_bool (GDM_KEY_SHOW_XTERM_FAILSAFE))
> -	    show_xterm_failsafe = TRUE;
>  
> -    if (show_xterm_failsafe) {
> +    if (gdm_config_get_bool (GDM_KEY_SHOW_GNOME_FAILSAFE)) {
>  	    session          = g_new0 (GdmSession, 1);
>  	    session->name    = g_strdup (_("Failsafe _GNOME"));
>  	    session->comment = g_strdup (_("This is a failsafe session that will log you "
> @@ -303,7 +298,7 @@
>  		g_strdup (GDM_SESSION_FAILSAFE_GNOME), session);
>      }
>  
> -    if (show_xterm_failsafe) {
> +    if (gdm_config_get_bool (GDM_KEY_SHOW_XTERM_FAILSAFE)) {
>  	    session          = g_new0 (GdmSession, 1);
>  	    session->name    = g_strdup (_("Failsafe _Terminal"));
>  	    session->comment = g_strdup (_("This is a failsafe session that will log you "
>   


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