[oe] [meta-xfce][PATCH] lxdm: provides fake gdmflexiserver for xfce desktop environment

kai.kang at windriver.com kai.kang at windriver.com
Wed May 29 02:40:39 UTC 2019


From: Kai Kang <kai.kang at windriver.com>

Xfce4 plugin 'actions' which stays in tray area provides a menu 'Switch
User' but the menu grayed out. It calls whether 'dm-tool' from lightdm
or 'gdmflexiserver' from gdm to support switch users.

Since recipe gdm has been removed from meta-gnome, create a fake
'gdmflexiserver' which calls lxdm to make menu 'Switch User' work
according to:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xfce#User_switching_action_button_is_greyed_out

Signed-off-by: Kai Kang <kai.kang at windriver.com>
---
 meta-xfce/recipes-graphics/lxdm/lxdm/gdmflexiserver | 3 +++
 meta-xfce/recipes-graphics/lxdm/lxdm_%.bbappend     | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 meta-xfce/recipes-graphics/lxdm/lxdm/gdmflexiserver
 create mode 100644 meta-xfce/recipes-graphics/lxdm/lxdm_%.bbappend

diff --git a/meta-xfce/recipes-graphics/lxdm/lxdm/gdmflexiserver b/meta-xfce/recipes-graphics/lxdm/lxdm/gdmflexiserver
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4ef8baf29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-xfce/recipes-graphics/lxdm/lxdm/gdmflexiserver
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+lxdm -c USER_SWITCH
diff --git a/meta-xfce/recipes-graphics/lxdm/lxdm_%.bbappend b/meta-xfce/recipes-graphics/lxdm/lxdm_%.bbappend
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4a799a98a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-xfce/recipes-graphics/lxdm/lxdm_%.bbappend
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+FILESEXTRAPATHS_append := "${THISDIR}/${BPN}:"
+
+SRC_URI += "file://gdmflexiserver"
+
+do_install_append () {
+    install -D -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/gdmflexiserver ${D}${bindir}/gdmflexiserver
+}
-- 
2.20.0



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