[Solved] Re: [FC8] where does gdmsetup hide the "Welcome" text?

[Todd Denniston]

Tim wrote, On 12/11/2007 09:51 PM:
> On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 16:30 -0500, Todd Denniston wrote:
>> where does gdmsetup hide the "Welcome" text in Fedora 8?
>> /etc/X11/gdm/ is empty [actually I think I may have created it]
>>
>> and in /etc/gdm
>> I can see other changes I made 
> 
> On FC7, I have the following in /etc/gdm/custom.conf
> 
>   [greeter]
>   DefaultWelcome=false
>   Welcome=Welcome to %n
> 
> Welcome= has a string, rather than a file path.
> 
Understood.
If you look a little farther down in my original email you will see that I did 
set
  [greeter]
  Use24Clock=yes
  DefaultWelcome=false
  Welcome=from the file.

but it did not show up on the screen when I Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (kill X and let 
gdm restart) which had worked in FC4 for updating it.

However !!!!!! this morning, as I was preparing to respond to your email I 
booted the machine up and it was displaying "from the file.", so I modified it 
to "from the file 12 Dec 2007." rebooted the machine and the new change was 
displayed.

So I suppose that there has been a change such that killing the X server no 
longer causes gdm to re-read it's config files, which means that now to get 
the hand change to show you need to either reboot or issue gdm-restart.

BTW just tested change + gdm-restart and it works as expected.

Thanks for the feedback, and sorry for any confusion.
-- 
Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter