F19 Beta RC2: First log in - GNOME Welcome goes full screen

Mateusz Marzantowicz mmarzantowicz at osdf.com.pl
Wed May 22 08:27:30 UTC 2013


On 22.05.2013 01:21, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 22:54 +0200, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
>> Is it possible to disable this "feature"? It might be funny when you are
>> 10 years old, new Linux user and just gotten your first computer from
>> your parents. For all other cases it's ... ridiculous? After 10 new
>> accounts I'll have to contact psychotherapist. Besides, it scared me
>> because I had to wait about 5 secs. before video loaded and was
>> uncertain if my freshly installed box hanged with White Screen of
>> Death). What is most important - it is wasting users time.
> Are you in the account creation business ?

No, but I create at last one account for me (at home), up to five on VMs
and then about 10 at work (I need to do fresh installations). Then I
reinstall Fedora several times and not always it could be minimal
installation which I prefer. Watching this intro is really nice and
educational but only once. I'm not preparing for "How to use GNOME" contest.

>
> In any case, as others have pointed out, gnome-initial-setup won't run
> if the file ~/.config/gnome-initial-setup-done exists. the welcome video
> will only play if the file ~/.config/run-welcome-tour exists. 
>
> All of this can easily be found out by looking at the
> gnome-initial-setup package - which is a leaf package and can be removed
> without any harm to your system.
>
>
>

Thanks, I'll finally learn how to prepare my own Fedora installation
image. It'd be more beneficial than watch "Welcome screen" again and
again and again.


Mateusz Marzantowicz


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