Ray Strode wrote:
Hi,
I followed the steps as listed in the first email of this thread (plus the selinux suggestion later on), with the only deviation being that sed -i -e 's/Xorg/Xair/g' /usr/share/gdm/config/gdm.conf-custom didn't work, so I created a /usr/share/gdm/config folder and then touched gdm.conf-custom and then ran the command. Not sure if that's wrong to do. I do indeed get drop shadows and a bunch of solid white windows, and an earlier email said that might be because I'm using Xorg instead of Xair. However, I removed /usr/bin/X and made a symlink to /usr/bin/Xair. Was that not the right way to make sure Xair is working?
So with the latest rawhide, gdm's configuration file has moved to /etc/gdm/custom.conf
Is there any particular reason gdm (and kdm for that matter) don't simply default to /usr/bin/X? It's supposed to be the default X server, which seems a better way to handle it IMHO. Then one merely need point the /usr/bin/X symlink to the server of choice, in theory at least.
We don't have anything for managing the symlink currently (Xconfigurator used to do that), but it could be done manually by hand. Or someone could whip up a craptastic python GUI system-config-xserver-symlink or switchx or somesuch. ;)
Note, it appears all x86-64 users get the white boxes no matter what. That bug is being worked on.
X on x86_64 has been a bit rough around the edges in 7.0 thus far, but hopefully smooths out soon.