On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:37:15PM +0000, Sharpe, Sam J wrote:
2009/3/12 Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au>:
> On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 11:05 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>> This should work fine:
>>
>> $ su - # enter root password at prompt
>> $ GCONFSYS=$(gconftool-2 --get-default-source)
>> $ gconftool-2 --config-source=$GCONFSYS --set
/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list \
>> --type bool true
>>
>> Just tried it on my F10 box and it works like a charm. You can't get
>> rid of the "Other..." selection AFAICT, but all the other faces
>> disappear as expected. If you want the faces back, use "false."
>
> Doesn't change a thing, on Fedora 9. And I have rebooted. I've tried
> something like that before, too (as posted on this list a week or so
> ago), with the same lack of success.
>
> I should make it clear that I'm not trying to hide face pictures in the
> chooser, I don't want any list of names.
I have a feeling that Paul's solution won't work because GDM in Fedora
9 (unless it's changed massively since I upgraded) isn't configured in
GConf. You will probably find that my /etc/gdm/custom.conf solution
works, because when I wrote that customisation in our organisational
installer, that is what I was using.
Changing /etc/gdm/custom.conf doesn't work on F10, for sure. All it
contained before I edited it was empty sections xdcmp, chooser, security,
and debug. I added:
[greeter]
browser=false
and it makes no diff at all.
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