Re: Change GDM3 to MDM?
Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 7:16 am
@ZZ that is exactly what I did, but I retried and still get dumped to a login prompt.
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GeneC wrote:Yikes!
I must have done it at the right time. Perhaps some new upgrades (since I first installed it yesterday) are making things more difficult?
My first install just worked with no problem. The second failed, but I just un-installed GDM3 and that worked.
Thanks to 'zz' for figuring all that out.
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apt policy mdm
mdm:
Installed: 1.0.0
Candidate: 1.0.0
Version table:
*** 1.0.0 0
700 http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.1.3-2 0
500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages
500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages
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apt policy mdm
mdm:
Installed: 1.0.0
Candidate: 1.0.0
Version table:
*** 1.0.0 0
500 http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.1.3-2 0
500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages
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roger@lmde64 ~ $ apt policy mdm
mdm:
Installé : 1.0.0
Candidat : 1.0.0
Table de version :
*** 1.0.0 0
700 http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.1.3-2 0
500 http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming/ testing/main amd64 Packages
roger@lmde64 ~ $
Waynegene@zordon:~$ apt-cache policy mdm
mdm:
Installed: 1.0.0
Candidate: 1.0.0
Version table:
*** 1.0.0 0
700 http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.1.3-2 0
500 http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages
you are right... I am tracking Debian Sid.Looks like your getting yours from Debian, not Mint.
big OOPSwayne128 wrote: I got middle man installed..
to this i presumexircon wrote:Yup, twice. Also edited /etc/X11/default-display-manager as that is all that the reconfigure does.
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/usr/sbin/mdm
If you log out and log back in, you'll probably be on a different display. That's ok.. as long as you run applications in user mode. If you try to run them as root or using sudo, it will fail because you don't have the right to the display. To work around this, simply type "xhost +" to give root the rights to your display. Long-term, if this proves to be a usability problem and provided it's ok in regards to security, we might open the displays by default.
Sometimes the MATE session fails to theme itself properly and shows up with ugly looking panels and icons. This is due to a race condition with MDM and usually only happens in live mode. There are a number of workarounds for this. If it happens rarely, simply retheme the session by typing "mate-settings-daemon" and "killall caja". If the problem persists, you can add a "killall gnome-settings-daemon" and a "killall mate-settings-daemon" in the PreSession's default script for MDM. Alternatively you can switch to GDM3.
LMDE64. My Mate session handles MDM very well and does not cough at all. Furthermore, I realize I have a " fenêtre de connexion" (connection window?) in gnome-control-center which provides an easy configuration on top of the usual mdm.conf, and the screen greeter mdm windowzerozero wrote:.../...
anyway, it seems that we jumped ship a bit too early (as always ): mdm is given a bit of troubles.../...
Hi! zerozero,zerozero wrote:hey steve hey wayne
if you are again in square one, try:it will for sure fail withCode: Select all
apt install mdm mint-mdm-themes
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E: /var/cache/apt/archives/mdm_1.0.0_amd64.deb: trying to overwrite ‘/usr/share/pixmaps/nohost.png’, which is also in package gdm3 3.0.4-4
but after you have to reinstall mdm because it failed. (in the end of this part we have to make sure that mdm, mint-mdm-themes and gdm3 are installed).Code: Select all
sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/mdm_1.0.0_amd64.deb
nowand choose mdm, but then i think you have to do alsoCode: Select all
sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm3
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sudo dpkg-reconfigure mdm
let me know
glad i could be of helpelliotsagan wrote: I was able to switch to MDM successfully following your step by step codes.. No hassles at all. Thank you very much for your help.
Regards