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Title: (SOLVED) Trying to get gdm3 to work.
Post by: Cuttlefish on September 11, 2013, 09:03:15 AM

Hello folks.

In the process of trying to use vsido with gnome 3.8, I noticed that the lock screen (with the sliding curtain) was not functioning. Instead I still have the original vsido login.

I looked in a number of places for clues:
Here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/213763/how-to-enable-new-lock-screen-on-gnome-3-6 (http://askubuntu.com/questions/213763/how-to-enable-new-lock-screen-on-gnome-3-6)
(Yes, I know Ubuntu isn't the best place for debian.)
I get this error:
[FAIL] Starting GNOME Display Manager: gdm3 failed!

and
Here: http://vsido.org/index.php/topic,221.msg2976.html#msg2976 (http://vsido.org/index.php/topic,221.msg2976.html#msg2976)

and various other places.

I even tried checking and asking on the debian forum and got my "hand slapped". :)

Any direction or suggestions would be great. Obviously I'm missing something.
Thanks

BTW: "VSIDO Gnome" looks really cool with the vsido theme and icons. and is very responsive and snappy!

Title: Re: Trying to get gdm3 to work.
Post by: VastOne on September 11, 2013, 02:36:51 PM

^ Try running

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm3

and selecting gdm... It might help... other than that I have no idea why it's own configuration is not being used.

Title: Re: Trying to get gdm3 to work.
Post by: VastOne on September 11, 2013, 02:56:49 PM

You have peaked my interest... I am going to load gdm3 to check it out

Title: Re: Trying to get gdm3 to work.
Post by: VastOne on September 11, 2013, 03:25:43 PM

Wow... what a lot to install! 168 MiB cleaned out by BleahBit and localepurge...

I installed it from Experimental doing this

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[code]apt-get install -t experimental gnome3-session

Gonna reboot and test now

Title: Re: Trying to get gdm3 to work.
Post by: VastOne on September 11, 2013, 03:50:23 PM

It worked for me...

Unfortunately I could not get anything else to work... No apps would come up, no settings, nothing I clicked on would work with the exception of lock and power off

I would try this

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apt-get install -t experimental gnome3-session

to verify that solves the issue

Title: Re: Trying to get gdm3 to work.
Post by: Cuttlefish on September 11, 2013, 05:09:51 PM

Thanks for the effort VastOne. It is very much appreciated. :-)
I didn't try or think to try the experimental repo I just took The whole shebang from Synaptic. Is it possible to reinstall gdm3 from the experimental repo? I will check when I get home.

You should see when I down load Gnome. Its like downloading another distro. :D
Thanks again!

Title: Re: Trying to get gdm3 to work.
Post by: VastOne on September 11, 2013, 05:18:21 PM

If you run the command I gave, it will install from Experimental over what you have... think of it as a dist-upgrade just for gnome3

Title: Re: (SOLVED) Trying to get gdm3 to work.
Post by: Cuttlefish on September 11, 2013, 11:42:56 PM

Awesome VastOne! Thank you. Seems to be working really well, albeit a tad slower, but is seems quite nice. Things that I forgot about in Gnome 3.8 are working, like right-click on the desktop, background change. Neat stuff. I realize there is a lot of bloat here, but it is interesting to see the DE come together. I didn't know there is an experimental repo.

I'll have to investigate it . Thanks again.

Dave

Title: Re: (SOLVED) Trying to get gdm3 to work.
Post by: VastOne on September 11, 2013, 11:44:47 PM

^ Good to hear... but you want to be very careful with Experimental... it is the real unstable area of Debian

Title: Re: (SOLVED) Trying to get gdm3 to work.
Post by: Cuttlefish on September 12, 2013, 01:00:18 AM

Yes I will be careful, but will also have some fun breaking it too!!
...I'm looking forward to testing your "New Direction".

VSIDO Community

VSIDO Support => General Support => Topic started by: Cuttlefish on September 11, 2013, 09:03:15 AM