GDM has been updated today to version 3.19.2

Dec 16, 2015 22:35 GMT  ·  By

The third development milestone towards the GNOME 3.20 desktop environment, version 3.19.3, should be released later today, which means that more and more of its core components and apps are being updated each hour.

GDM (GNOME Display Manager) was updated just a few minutes ago, December 16, to version 3.19.2, and we've managed to take a look at the internal changelog, which, of course, we have attached at the end of the article for reference, for some new features.

To our surprise, we've discovered that the GNOME devs managed to introduce quite a few things in GDM 3.19.2, such as the implementation of separate X11 and Wayland sessions, support for hiding the Wayland session if the login screen is powered by X11, as well as the removal of the "custom" session.

Moreover, the gnome-wayland session has been renamed to gnome, the -listen argument is now used for new X.Org Server versions instead of -nolisten, the session mode is now passed to the shell via the environment, and various language translations have been updated.

You can download the GDM 3.19.2 sources right now from our website if you want to compile it yourself on your GNU/Linux distribution, but please note that this is a pre-release version, not suitable for production use. GDM 3.19.2 will be distributed later this week as part of the GNOME 3.19.3 development release.

GDM 3.19.2 Changelog