Fedora 9 | changing login screen?
coo...@nospamverizon.net
I have a number of machines, all running FC7 or FC8. I recently decided
to have a look at FC9, so took the least important of my machines,
reformatted / (left /home intact), and did the clean install. Seemed to
go fine.
However, once I fired up FC9, ran into a slew of issues - some minor,
some less so. I'll start with a minor one - where the heck is the menu
item to change attributes of the login screen? On all my other Fedora
boxes, its System | Administration | Login Screen. But, on the Fedora 9
box, no such menu item (come to think of it - several of other menu
items I normally find on System | Administration are missing, but I'll
start with the Login Screen item.
Oh, and before someone asks, logged in to default gnome desktop as root.
I'm stumped/puzzled. Suggestions? Pointers to the obvious?
coo...@nospamverizon.net
Oh, and I looked for gdmsetup in all the usual places - doesn't exist.
How very weird. Perhaps Redhat/Fedora doesn't want us to play with the
spiffy read: annoying) new gdm?
Allen Kistler
Actually it's Gnome (i.e., the Gnome Project) that doesn't provide the
option/utility to change the greeter (aka login screen). Lots of other
folks have complained about its inflexibility, too.
If you get ambitious, there are some things you can change by editing
the GConf structures for the gdm user. Like you can hide the
reboot/shutdown buttons if you want (and a very few other useless
things). As of about a week ago, Gnome added an option to hide the user
list on the login screen, an excellent improvement that would be nice if
it came downstream to Fedora.
The best documentation on what you can and cannot do is at www.gnome.org.