Stop GDM showing notifications?

[Tom Horsley]

Can I run dconf-editor for a different user? (user gdm), or
find some other magical way to disable the notifications
that pop up while logging in?

In particular there is a persistently annoying notification
that my mouse battery is low. I'm fairly certain it is really
the keyboard battery it is talking about, but the dadgum keyboard has
a red light that comes on when it actually needs charging,
the gnome check is totally bogus and starts weeks before the
keyboard actually needs to be charged.

[Samuel Sieb]

On 12/3/20 4:32 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
>  Can I run dconf-editor for a different user? (user gdm), or
>  find some other magical way to disable the notifications
>  that pop up while logging in? 
If you can figure out the setting you need to change, you can add it to 
the dconf database in /etc/dconf.
To use dconf-editor, these are the steps that worked for me on Wayland:
chmod o+w /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
sudo -i
sudo -s -u gdm dconf-editor
chmod o-w /tmp/.X11-unix/X0

[Tom Horsley]

On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 17:12:27 -0800
Samuel Sieb wrote:

>  these are the steps that worked for me on Wayland 
Sounds like useful info. I'll play around when I have time.
Thanks.

[Jonathan Billings]

>  On Dec 3, 2020, at 20:13, Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net&gt; wrote:
>  
>  If you can figure out the setting you need to change, you can add it to the dconf
> database in /etc/dconf. 
This is where I put configuration for gdm’s dconf settings. For example, this is how you
set the login banner:

https://help.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/login-banner.html.en

This method is much better than trying to muck around in the gdm user’s homedir. 

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Jonathan Billings