Daily Report: wdm

Friday, December 18, 2009

Linux: To build WDM

WDM is a display login manager for Linux. I am building WDM as replacement for xdm and slim. Before compilation, I installed the following packages in addition to the compiler toolchain:

libwraster3-dev
libwings-dev
libpam0g-dev
libxinerama-dev
gettext

I configured wdm like this:

./configure --x-includes=/usr/local/include --x-libraries=/usr/local/lib --sysconfdir=/etc/X11 --localstatedir=/var --with-nlsdir=/usr/share/locale --with-wdmdir=/etc/X11/wdm --with-gfxdir=/usr/share/pixmaps/wdm --enable-aafont --with-wmlist=icewm:openbox:pekwm:gnome-session

Then I built WDM:

make
make install

The following files are installed.

/etc/X11/wdm/Xclients
/etc/X11/wdm/Xservers
/etc/X11/wdm/Xservers.ws
/etc/X11/wdm/Xsession
/etc/X11/wdm/Xsetup_0
/etc/X11/wdm/wdm-config
/etc/X11/wdm/wdmReconfig
/usr/local/bin/wdm
/usr/local/bin/wdmLogin
/usr/local/man/man1/wdm.1
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/wdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/wdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/wdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/wdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/wdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/wdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/wdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/wdm.mo
/var/run/wdm

I created a script as /etc/init.d/wdm:

#!/bin/sh

set -e

test -x /usr/local/bin/wdm || exit 0

case "$1" in
  start)
    echo "Starting wdm..."
    start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile /var/run/wdm.pid --name wdm --startas /usr/local/bin/wdm
  ;;

  restart)
    /etc/init.d/wdm stop
    /etc/init.d/wdm start
  ;;

  stop)
    echo "Stopping wdm..."
    if ! [ -f /var/run/wdm.pid ]; then
      echo "/var/run/wdm.pid not found"
    else
      start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile /var/run/wdm.pid --name wdm --retry TERM/5/TERM/5
    fi
  ;;
esac

exit 0