It is still me. I was just chatting with a coworker who told me that he thinks that gdm now switch to dbus. Can anyone confirm this? Valerio On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:41 AM, Valerio Mariani <valerio.mariani@gmail.com> wrote:

PS: The old socket was at /var/run/gdm_socket

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:40 AM, Valerio Mariani <valerio.mariani@gmail.com> wrote:

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Dear All,

         I have been trying to use kdm-gdmcompat with the latest version of GNOME shipping with RC1:

http://opensource.fsmi.uni-karlsruhe.de/projects/kdm-gdmcompat/

Essentially, the program listens on the gdm_socket that is usually used to comunicate to GDM, and passes the command to KDM.

My goal is to use it to switch users when using Gnome as a desktop environment but KDM as display manager.

Unfortunately, the thing is not working. If I look at the logs, no signal is received on the socket when switching user from the gnome menu. Since I find no documentation online, does anyone know if GDM 3.2 still using the socket to communicate?

Thank you in advance

  Valerio

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Thanks. I could write to intercept the call, but maybe it is better just to write a simple script that calls kdmctl to create a new instance of kdm, crate a nice button for it, and use that to switch user. Thank you anyway! Valerio On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Vincent Untz <vuntz@opensuse.org> wrote:

Le vendredi 28 octobre 2011, à 14:36 +0200, Valerio Mariani a écrit :

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It is still me. I was just chatting with a coworker who told me that he thinks that gdm now switch to dbus. Can anyone confirm this?

I just checked, and yes, that's the case.

See the code for gdmflexiserver:  http://git.gnome.org/browse/gdm/tree/utils/gdmflexiserver.c

Vincent

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Excellent idea! Thanks Valerio On Friday, October 28, 2011 03:35:34 PM Vincent Untz wrote:

Le vendredi 28 octobre 2011, à 15:13 +0200, Valerio Mariani a écrit :

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Thanks. I could write to intercept the call, but maybe it is better just to write a simple script that calls kdmctl to create a new instance of kdm, crate a nice button for it, and use that to switch user.

Or you can use the same hack as XFCE does: set the GDMFLEXISERVER environment variable to a binary that does whatever you want to do. Look at the /usr/bin/gdmflexiserver script to see how that works.

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