How to change the gdm theme in Arch?

[viking60]

No yaourt can be used exactly as pacman try yaourt -Syu and you will see what I mean,

[dedanna1029]

I did. It ran pacman, not yaourt. LOL.

So, if one needs packages specifically from yaourt only, one can't use the pacman options, or it will search pacman (normal repos).

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$ yaourt -Syu
You are not allowed to launch /usr/bin/pacman with sudo
Please enter root password
Password:
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra                   458.0K  307.6K/s 00:00:01 [######################] 100%
 community               376.3K  274.5K/s 00:00:01 [######################] 100%
 archlinuxfr is up to date

==> Software upgrade (new version) :
extra/openjdk6           6.b18_0.hg_20100715-1 -> 6.b18_1.8.1-1
community/perl-xyne-arch 2010.07.24.2-1        -> 2010.07.31.1-1

==> Continue upgrade ? [Y/n]
==> [V]iew package detail   [M]anually select packages
==> --------------------------------------------------
==> y
You are not allowed to launch -->/usr/bin/pacman with sudo
Please enter root password
Password:
-->:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (2): openjdk6-6.b18_1.8.1-1 [29.98 MB]
             perl-xyne-arch-2010.07.31.1-1 [0.08 MB]

Total Download Size:    30.06 MB
Total Installed Size:   121.82 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages from -->extra...
 openjdk6-6.b18_1.8...    30.0M  558.3K/s 00:00:55 [######################]  99%
:: Retrieving packages from -->community...
 perl-xyne-arch-201...    30.1M  439.3K/s 00:01:10 [######################] 100%
checking package integrity...
(2/2) checking for file conflicts                  [######################] 100%
(1/2) upgrading openjdk6                           [######################] 100%
when you use a non-reparenting window manager
set _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1 in
/etc/profile.d/openjdk6.sh
(2/2) upgrading perl-xyne-arch                     [######################] 100%

[dedanna@dedanna ~]$

That's not yaourt. That's extra and community. In our case, we needed it from yaourt directly. The only way to do that is to run it with no options.

[viking60]

What is your point? I am saying that yaourt -S works exactly as pacman -S. It will also compile packages from aur.
Example:
If I want to install python-pyffmpeg from AUR:
sudo pacman -S python-pyffmpeg will not work
yaourt -S python-pyffmpeg will work just fine.

yaourt python-pyffmpeg will work too, but with some extra operations. So there was no need to correct my code above. Still; both methods will work.
But as you can see this statement is not correct:

FYI I modified your code further. You had yaourt -S gdm2setup. -S only applies to pacman, and doesn't apply to yaourt. Thanks. ~Moderator

-S does apply to yaourt! And in fact, so do all the combinations you can use in pacman like -R etc., etc.

And I chickened out on gdm-old too (I thought u could try it before me ). I THINK it will be OK to replace your gdm. I even think that you can make your changes and reistall the "new" gdm and keep the changes.
But that is what I THINK

[dedanna1029]

My point is that we're not searching pacman sources right now. We're searching yaourt only, and one can't use -S to do that. I just proved it above. If you're using it to search pacman sources, then yes, one can use -S. But we're trying to search yaourt only. These things are not available in pacman sources (community, etc.) - they're only available in yaourt, so -S wouldn't apply, as it would only search pacman sources (which don't include yaourt ones).

[viking60]

Misunderstanding! I am talking about installing in my post above. I am not sure where you got the querying from.
If you want query you must use yaourt packagename (or yaourt -Q packet name, for querying installed packages) you cannot-use -S for querying.

Yaourt will query all the repos including AUR, pacman will only query standard repos -that is correct. Anyway the -Q does apply to yaourt for querying as well as -S does for installing.

So yes; yaourt gdm2setup will query the package in the pacman repos and AUR (not only AUR/Yaourt).

Since I had done the querying I gave tips regarding installing gdm2setup - not finding it. Still it is no biggie it will easily be installed from the list found by yaourt gdm2setup.

Now be a good girl and install gdm-old I need to know if it works

[dedanna1029]

I'm not talking about just querying. See my code above. Look at what command I ran:

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$ yaourt -Syu

Look at what happened from there.

Sorry, don't want to risk gdm-old; saw what it would do when I tried to run it before.

[viking60]

this is what happens:

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.:[ thomas@viking60-server : 20:48:29 : ~ ]:.
:) yaourt -Syu
:: Synkroniserer pakkedatabaser ...
 core er oppdatert
 extra er oppdatert
 community er oppdatert
 archlinuxfr er oppdatert


[dedanna1029]

Right. None of which be yaourt.

[viking60]

Do you mean AUR?
That is not a traditional repository so that is no wonder that it cannot be updated (you have to compile those packages first-yaourt does it).
But you sure as hell can compile/install from it with yaourt -S

So YES: -S does apply to yaourt (not only pacman). AND YES yaourt -S gdm2setup will compile and install gdm2setup from aur (given the fact that you answer the prompts accordingly) without question, without a doubt, and no smoke screen in the world can change that.

I am going to quote from Moses Ipad now:
Thou shalst not be stubborn

(think it was No.11 on the list, so it might not be as famous as the first 10)