GDM Greeter
Matthias Clasen
mclasen at redhat.com
Mon Apr 28 15:20:33 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 10:42 -0400, Christopher L Tubbs II wrote:
> What does everybody think of the new greeter?
>
> Personally, I have issues with it:
>
> 1) suspend option remains, even after disabling suspend globally via
> gconf-editor (bug already reported, and apparently patch has already
> been committed upstream)
In the meantime, you already can make the suspend button go away
(together with the restart and shutdown buttons). See
disable_restart_buttons on http://live.gnome.org/GDM/2.22/Configuration
> 2) I can't seem to configure my "face" image. Putting a ".face" graphic
> in my home directory doesn't work, nor does configuring image with
> System->Preferences->Personal->About Me.
What permissions do you have on your home directory ?
> 4) Where the hell are the login screen settings? This is a serious
> oversight. I had thought the greeter configuration was supposed to be
> EASIER than previous releases (I can't remember where I read that, but
> for some reason I was expecting it).
What specific settings do you need ? The old gdmsetup exposed every
arcane configuration detail, which is not something we want to go back
to.
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