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
