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wdm-1.28

Introduction to WINGs Display Manager

The WDM package contains a display manager based on WINGs toolkit from Window Maker.

This package is known to build and work properly using a ZiomekOS 26.9.26 platform.

WDM Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/w/wdm/wdm_1.28.orig.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 97d75a5be4fe1d2e232d2a39106a972e
Download size: 400kB

Additional Download

Debian package source tarball

This download is needed for patches.

Download: http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/w/wdm/wdm_1.28-27.debian.tar.xz

WDM Dependencies

Required

Window Maker 0.96.0 (for WINGs), xdm 1.1.17 (for up to date configuration), BLFS Boot Scripts 20250225 (for xdm boot script)

Installation of WDM

Extract patches 1 to 11 from the Debian source tarball into patches directory.

Apply patches:

patch -Np1 -i ../patches/01_kfreebsd.patch
patch -Np1 -i ../patches/02_fix_login_overflow.patch
patch -Np1 -i ../patches/03_autoconf.patch
patch -Np1 -i ../patches/04_manpage_indent.patch
patch -Np1 -i ../patches/05_french_translation_name.patch
patch -Np1 -i ../patches/06_login_composite.patch
patch -Np1 -i ../patches/07_ld_no_add_needed.patch
patch -Np1 -i ../patches/08_do_not_use_dev_mem.patch
patch -Np1 -i ../patches/09_pam_session.patch
patch -Np1 -i ../patches/10_spelling_fixes.patch
patch -Np1 -i ../patches/11_usr_bin_X11_removal.patch
patch -Np1 -i ../patches/12_make_it_compile_on_lfs.patch

Since configure.ac has been changed, you need to rebuild configure:

autoreconf -i

Install WDM by running the following commands:

./configure \
      --prefix=/usr \
      --datadir=/usr/share \
      --sysconfdir=/etc/X11 \
      --localstatedir=/var/lib/wdm \
      --with-gfxdir=/usr/share/pixmaps \
      --enable-shadow \
      --enable-pam \
      --enable-aafont \
      --with-pamdir=/etc/pam.d \
      --with-wdmdir=/etc/X11/wdm \
      --with-nlsdir=/usr/share/locale &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Configuring WDM

NOTE: All the actions in this section must be executed as root.

First, you need to update WDM config to make it inline with modern Xorg. I found the best way to do it, is just use what's delivered OOTB by xdm:

cp -v /etc/X11/xdm/{GiveConsole,TakeConsole,Xaccess,Xreset,Xresources,Xservers,Xsession,Xsetup_0,Xstartup,Xstartup} /etc/X11/wdm/

xdm starts xconsole in Xsetup_0, which means an ever-present window on your desktop. You may want to comment out that line :).

Next, you need to create WDM's authdir:

install -m0700 -o root -g root /etc/X11/wdm/authdir

You'll also need PAM configuration for WDM:

cat > /etc/pam.d/wdm << "EOF"
#%PAM-1.0

# Block login if they are globally disabled
auth      required pam_nologin.so

# Load environment from /etc/environment and ~/.pam_environment
auth      required pam_env.so

# Use /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow for passwords
auth      required pam_unix.so

# Check account is active, change password if required
account   required pam_unix.so

# Allow password to be changed
password  required pam_unix.so

# Setup session
session   required pam_unix.so
session   optional pam_systemd.so
EOF

Finally, install .xsession for root and make it executable:

cat > /root/.xsession << "EOF"
#!/usr/bin/env /bin/bash
exec /usr/bin/twm
EOF

chmod 755 /root/.xsession

Boot Script

NOTE: All the actions in this section must be executed as root.

To start WDM automatically when the system is switched to runlevel 5, you'll need to install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/xdm script and the /etc/sysconfig/xdm configuration file included in the blfs-bootscripts-20250225 package:

make install-xdm

Adjust the /etc/sysconfig/xdm to use WDM:

cat > /etc/sysconfig/xdm << "EOF"
# Which display manager to use (full path):
# DISPLAY_MANAGER=/usr/sbin/gdm
# DISPLAY_MANAGER=/usr/sbin/lxdm
DISPLAY_MANAGER=/usr/bin/wdm
# DISPLAY_MANAGER=/usr/bin/sddm

# Options to pass to the display manager:
DM_OPTIONS=""
EOF

Starting WDM

WDM can be started from the command line as the root user:

telinit 5

Starting WDM on boot

To start WDM on boot, adjust /etc/inittab to set 5 as the default runlevel:

id:5:initdefault:

Debugging WDM

WDM is a pretty old piece of software, largely outdated in the context of a modern system like LFS. As such, there can be potential issues.

By default, WDM logs to /var/log/xdm-errors.log and that's the first place to look for issues.

In any case, if you need to validate your display manager setup, you can adjust /etc/sysconfig/xdm to switch to xdm and validate your overall environment is sane.

For the (default) NoChange WM choice, each user will need an .xsesion file in their home directory, to start the selected window manageger or desktop environment.

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