gconf settings for gdm login

[Jon Masters]

On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 19:58 -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 07:51 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > Le lundi 22 février 2010 à 19:05 -0800, John Reiser a écrit :
> > > On 02/22/2010 03:07 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > > > There is much worse - it does not let you set the keyboard layour
> > > > anymore, so anyone in a non-qwerty locale will have a lot of problem
> > > > inputting his login (sometimes it won't be possible at all, since qwerty
> > > > does not give access to a lot of letters)
> > > 
> > > With qwerty many letters have no one-key equivalent; but does the
> > > <compose> key work?   <compose> allows entering any byte by entering
> > > its numeric value.
> > 
> > Does not matter. Someone who has direct access to a letter on his normal
> > keyboard layout is very unlikely to know a compose sequence for it (let
> > alone a compose sequence on an unfamiliar layout)
> 
> A week or two ago I tried just poking at gconf settings for the gdm
> user, which I believe worked only for one reboot.

Seems to be back in the latest update (my rawhide systems automatically
upgrade and reboot daily), however the icons adjoining the user list
aren't there - just the user name is given. I suspect the face browser
isn't enabled but haven't looked any further than noticing gdm.

Jon.