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Ubuntu Tricks

Install good old themeable GDM in Karmic Koala

After installation of Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala beta I found out that the GDM was completely changed. And the main part - it cannot be themed anymore. Which I didn't like at all. Thanks god they kept the old GDM in repositories as well. It's named gdm-2.20. However, there's a bug in that package which has to be fixed manually afterwards.

First we install the "old" GDM.

sudo apt-get install gdm-2.20

We'll be prompted for the default gdm, choose gdm-2.20. Now the installation is finished, however we need to fix a bug in GDM configuration file.

sudo vim /etc/gdm/gdm.conf

Find all occurences of /usr/X11R6/bin/X and change it to /usr/bin/X. Now we're finished and can run the GDM.

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start

Enable ctrl+alt+backspace X restart

If you want to have the ability to restart your X server with the magic key combination ctrl+alt+backspace in Jaunty and later, add the following section to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

Section "ServerFlags"
   Option          "DontZap"       "off"
EndSection

Disable updates window automatic popping up

In order to disable the automatic window raising and restore the Jaunty notification style, use the following command.

gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false