[LightDM] {Disarmed} Re: Lightdm host in XDMCP chooser menu

[Robert Ancell]

Hi Wolfgang,

Could you file a bug [1] to track this request?

Thanks,
--Robert

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+filebug

On Thu, 5 May 2016 at 12:20 Wolfgang Baudler <wbaudler at gb.nrao.edu> wrote:

> > Hi Wolfgang,
> >
> >>From the XDMCP documentation:
> >
> >     *Hostname*: ARRAY8
> >       Is a human readable string describing the host from which the
> packet
> > was sent. The protocol specifies no interpretation of the data in this
> > field.
> >     *Status*: ARRAY8
> >       Is a human readable string describing the status of the host. This
> > could include load average/number of users connected or other
> information.
> > The protocol specifies no interpretation of the data in this field.
> > Looking at the LightDM code we don't set anything in these fields. It
> > seems
> > we should probably set hostname to the system hostname (and make
> > configurable in lightdm.conf). Not sure what is appropriate to set status
> > to (if anything).
> >
>
> Regarding status, the original xdm comes with a shell script called
> "Xwilling" which produces the status field string by default. Example:
>
> 3 users, load: 0.00, 0.07, 0.14
>
> The script looks like that:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> #
>
> # The output of this script is displayed in the chooser window.
> # (instead of "Willing to manage")
>
> load="`uptime|sed -e 's/^.*load[^0-9]*//'`"
> nrusers="`who|cut -c 1-8|sort -u|wc -l|sed 's/^[        ]*//'`"
> s=""; [ "$nrusers" != 1 ] && s=s
>
> echo "${nrusers} user${s}, load: ${load}"
>
>
>
> Wolfgang
>
>
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