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. Long ago I made a custom GDM greeter, it was a theme that I made where I could customise such things, rather than customising that (above mentioned) file. That configuration file has a reference to "/usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf". And there's another file which has all the "default" multi-lingual texts. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.23.1-10.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.