Now for Fedora 9 --- Re: Fedora 10 login screen

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Fri Mar 13 16:19:50 UTC 2009


I need to do this on a FC9 system that has 15 users, and the list thus 
is long....

Sharpe, Sam J wrote:
> Margaret Doll wrote:
>> I tried adding
>>
>> [greeter]
>> Browser=false
>>
>> to /etc/gdm/custom.conf to change the login screen. This made no 
>> changes in the screen.
>>
>> Is there a gdmsetup or "Login screen setup" program? If so, in which 
>> rpm is it located?
>
> 1) Did you restart GDM or reboot the machine? Are there multiple lines 
> that say [greeter] in your /etc/gdm/custom.conf?

There is not even a [greeter] line mine.
>
> It may be that it is now configured with GConf, I keep losing track - 
> try:
>
> yum -y install gconf-editor ; gconf-editor
>
> Then navigate to /apps/gdm/simple-greeter and tick the 
> disable_user_list box that I've just found.

There is no disable_user_list box in FC9 as there is in my FC10 system. 
Can I add one?

>
> You will probably need to restart GDM, which I usually do with 
> "killall -HUP gdm-binary"
>
> 2) No, there isn't a setup program any more. GDM settings are moving 
> to gconf and the state of the gdmsetup program is in flux. 





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