Bug#429804: gdmXnest show just the gey dotted screen instead of login screen

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 16:25 +0200, Emil Nowak wrote:
> reopen 429804
> stop
> 
> On 2007-06-22, at 14:00:05 Josselin Mouette wrote:
> 
> > The correct command is "gdmflexiserver --xnest".
> Ok so what is gdmXnest for? Why do we have this file in gdm packages if it is
> not useful?
> 
> Even if "gdmflexiserver --xnest" is correct command it also doesn't work. It
> just shows message dialog:
> "Cannot start new display
> "The nested X server (Xnest) is not available, or GDM is badly configured.
> Please install the Xnest package in order to use the nested login."

You're probably missing a nested x server, just as the error message
says. Try installing xserver-xephyr. (This is a suggested package by
gdm).

In the future you should be able to use xephyr or xnest, but at the
moment this is set during build time, and only with xserver-xephyr. This
will probably be handled by a wrapper script later.

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Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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