[Bug 28319] [Dapper] editing setup causes gdm to crash

[Sebastien Bacher]

Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/28319

Comment:
Le dimanche 15 janvier 2006 à 14:57 +0000, Thomas Templin a écrit :
> # You should not update this file by hand.  Since GDM 2.13.0.4, 
> # configuration choices in the gdm.conf-custom file will override the 
> # default values specified in this file. 
> 
> And:
> 
> # If you hand-edit the GDM configuration, you should run the
> following 
> # command to get the GDM daemon to recognize the change.  Any running 
> # GDM GUI programs will also be notified to update with the new 
> # configuration.
> #
> # gdmflexiserver --command="UPDATE_CONFIG <configuration key>"
> 
> I my eyes this is a very bad solution due to the fact it's a paradigm
> change being not allowed to edit conf files by hand and just restart
> the  service.
> And it's much to complicated... 

The solution seems nice to me. You have /etc/gdm/gdm.conf which is the
default shipped by the distribution and /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom which
is the file for your user changes or using gdmsetup. Restarting the
daemon uses the new configuration, UPDATE_CONFIG is to update the
configuration without restarting it.
You can edit gdm.conf-custom by hand too