On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 23:37 +0000, Sharpe, Sam J wrote:
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.
Not surprised.
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.
No, it doesn't. I'd already tried that. GDM has refused any customisation that I've tried since putting Fedora 9 on two computers, here.
What I've currently got in the file, testing it:
--------- begin paste of /etc/gdm/custom.conf ---------- # GDM configuration storage
[greeter] Browser=false BackgroundImage=/usr/share/backgrounds/nature/FreshFlower.jpg Exclude=testuser -------- end paste ---------
Tried turning the browser off, tried changing the background, tried explicitly listing usernames not to be displayed in the browser. No configuration controls have any effect.
I find it rather incredible that such radical changes were accepted to a package to included in the distribution. Even more so that it's never been fixed.