source: gnome/platform/gdm.xml@ f56d2e7

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<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY gdm-download-http "&gnome-download-http;/gdm/&gnome-43;/gdm-&gdm-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY gdm-download-ftp  "&gnome-download-ftp;/gdm/&gnome-43;/gdm-&gdm-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY gdm-md5sum        "d9ca2abdf2359d0420dc71a1bd1d7530">
  <!ENTITY gdm-size          "812 KB">
  <!ENTITY gdm-buildsize     "33 MB">
  <!ENTITY gdm-time          "0.3 SBU">
]>

<sect1 id="gdm" xreflabel="GDM-&gdm-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="gdm.html"?>


  <title>GDM-&gdm-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="gdm">
    <primary sortas="a-GDM">GDM</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to GDM</title>

    <para>
      <application>GDM</application> is a system service that is
      responsible for providing graphical logins and managing local
      and remote displays.
    </para>

    &lfs112_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&gdm-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&gdm-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &gdm-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &gdm-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &gdm-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &gdm-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
    <!--
    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Required patch:
          <ulink url="&patch-root;/gdm-&gdm-version;-security_fix-1.patch"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
    -->
    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">GDM Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="accountsservice"/>,
      <xref linkend="gtk3"/>,
      <xref linkend="iso-codes"/>,
      <xref linkend="itstool"/>,
      <xref linkend="libcanberra"/>,
      <xref linkend="libdaemon"/>, and
      <xref linkend="linux-pam"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="keyutils"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Runtime Dependencies</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref role="runtime" linkend="gnome-session"/>,
      <xref role="runtime" linkend="gnome-shell"/>, and
      <phrase revision="sysv"><xref role="runtime" linkend="elogind"/></phrase>
      <phrase revision="systemd"><xref role="runtime" linkend="systemd"/></phrase>
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
      <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/gdm"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of GDM</title>

    <para>
      It is recommended to have a dedicated user and group to take
      control of the <command>gdm</command> daemon after it is
      started. Issue the following commands as the
      <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>groupadd -g 21 gdm &amp;&amp;
useradd -c "GDM Daemon Owner" -d /var/lib/gdm -u 21 \
        -g gdm -s /bin/false gdm &amp;&amp;
passwd -ql gdm</userinput></screen>

    <para revision="sysv">
      First, adapt GDM to build without systemd present:
    </para>

<screen revision="sysv"><userinput remap="pre">sed -i -r '/(^| )systemd_dep/d' meson.build</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Install <application>GDM</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen revision="sysv"><userinput>sed -e 's@systemd@elogind@'                                \
    -e '/elogind/isession  required       pam_loginuid.so' \
    -i data/pam-lfs/gdm-launch-environment.pam &amp;&amp;

mkdir build &amp;&amp;
cd    build &amp;&amp;

meson --prefix=/usr               \
      --buildtype=release         \
      -Dgdm-xsession=true         \
      -Dsystemd-journal=false     \
      -Dsystemdsystemunitdir=/tmp \
      -Dsystemduserunitdir=/tmp   .. &amp;&amp;
ninja</userinput></screen>

<screen revision="systemd"><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
cd    build &amp;&amp;

meson --prefix=/usr               \
      --buildtype=release         \
      -Dgdm-xsession=true ..      &amp;&amp;
ninja</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      This package does not come with a usable test suite.
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root" revision="sysv"><userinput>ninja install &amp;&amp;
rm -rv /tmp/*.{service,target.d}</userinput></screen>

<screen role="root" revision="systemd"><userinput>ninja install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/meson-buildtype-release.xml"/>

    <para>
      <option>-Dinitial-vt=7</option>: Use this switch
      to make <application>GDM</application> start on VT7
      instead of the first free VT.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>-Ddefault-pam-config=lfs</option>: Use this
      switch if you did not create the
      <filename>/etc/lfs-release</filename> file or distribution
      auto detection will fail and you will be unable to use
      <application>GDM</application>.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>-Dgdm-xsession=true</parameter>: This enables the
      installation of the <application>GDM</application> Xsession file.
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring GDM</title>

    <sect3 id="gdm-config">
      <title>Config Files</title>

      <para>
        <filename>/etc/gdm/custom.conf</filename>
      </para>

      <indexterm zone="gdm gdm-config">
        <primary sortas="e-etc-gdm-custom.conf">/etc/gdm/custom.conf</primary>
      </indexterm>

    </sect3>

    <sect3>
      <title>Configuration Information</title>

      <para>
        The GDM daemon is configured using the
        <filename>/etc/gdm/custom.conf</filename> file. Default values
        are stored in GSettings in the <filename>gdm.schemas</filename>
        file. It is recommended that end-users modify the
        <filename>/etc/gdm/custom.conf</filename> file because the schemas
        file may be overwritten when the user updates their system to have
        a newer version of <application>GDM</application>.
      </para>

    </sect3>

    <sect3 id="gdm-init">
      <title><phrase revision="sysv">Boot Script</phrase>
             <phrase revision="systemd">Systemd Unit</phrase></title>

      <indexterm zone="gdm gdm-init">
        <primary sortas="f-gdm">gdm</primary>
      </indexterm>

      <para revision="sysv">
        To start <command>gdm</command> automatically when the system is
        switched to runlevel 5, install the
        <filename>/etc/rc.d/init.d/xdm</filename> script and the
        <filename>/etc/sysconfig/xdm</filename> configuration file
        included in the <xref linkend="bootscripts"/> package
        and adjust <filename>/etc/inittab</filename> by running
        as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
      </para>

<screen role="root" revision="sysv"><userinput>make install-gdm</userinput></screen>

      <para revision="sysv">
        In order to permanently set the default runlevel to 5, starting the
        <command>gdm</command> greeter screen automatically, you can modify
        <filename>/etc/inittab</filename>. As the  <systemitem
        class="username">root</systemitem> user:
      </para>

<screen role="root" revision="sysv"><userinput>sed /initdefault/s/3/5/ -i /etc/inittab</userinput></screen>

      <para revision="systemd">
        To start the <command>gdm</command> daemon at boot, enable
        the previously installed systemd unit by running the following command
        as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
      </para>

<screen role="root" revision="systemd"><userinput>systemctl enable gdm</userinput></screen>

<!-- [pierre October 2020] I don't understand why this is here: power
     management works perfectly well
      <para revision="sysv">
          You should also disable default elogind power management:
      </para>

<screen role="root" revision="sysv"><userinput>cat &gt;&gt; /etc/elogind/logind.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal>AllowSuspend=no
AllowHibernation=no</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>
-->

    </sect3>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="starting">
    <title>Starting GNOME</title>

    <para>
      It is possible to start <application>GNOME</application> from the command
      line, rather than using GDM. However, you must still have GDM installed
      for some portions of the desktop to work. One reason to start from the
      command line is if you want Wayland support on a system that has the
      proprietary NVIDIA driver installed, since GDM will not show the Wayland
      session type on such a system.
    </para>

    <para>
      To start <application>GNOME</application> using
      <xref role="nodep" linkend="xinit"/>, run the following commands:
    </para>

<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat &gt; ~/.xinitrc &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal>dbus-run-session gnome-session</literal>
EOF

startx</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Alternatively, to start <application>GNOME</application> with Wayland
      support, run the following command:
    </para>

<screen role="nodump"><userinput>dbus-run-session -- gnome-shell --display-server --wayland</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          gdm, gdmflexiserver, and gdm-screenshot
        </seg>
        <seg>
          libgdm.so and pam_gdm.so (PAM Module)
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /etc/gdm,
          /usr/include/gdm,
          /usr/share/gdm, and
          /usr/share/help/*/gdm
<!-- seems those diretories are not created at install, but at
     runtime
          /var/cache/gdm,
          /var/lib/gdm,
          /var/log/gdm, and
          /var/run/gdm-->
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="gdm-prog">
        <term><command>gdm</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a login prompt for <application>GNOME</application>
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gdm gdm-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-gdm">gdm</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gdm-screenshot">
        <term><command>gdm-screenshot</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a screenshot tool for <application>GDM</application>
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gdm gdm-screenshot">
            <primary sortas="b-gdm-screenshot">gdm-screenshot</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>