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

[David Boles]

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Todd Denniston wrote:
> 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.


Read the description and *instructions* at the top of custom.conf.  ;-)

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  David
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