-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. ;-) - -- David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) iD8DBQFHYAJmAO0wNI1X4QERAqamAKCxEoschYKZirDckoZ34mvDxgHK/gCgl6qi J4wq8Reg8CoIvsf4Gc0n+6A= =cT0q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
