> after re-reading the gdm(1m) manpages, i don't find the key i'm > interested in: > /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/banner_message_enable=false > /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/banner_message_text=NULL > /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_restart_buttons=false > /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list=true > /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/logo_icon_name=computer > /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/wm_use_compiz=false > /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility=true > /desktop/gnome/applications/at/screen_magnifier_enabled=false > /desktop/gnome/applications/at/screen_keyboard_enabled=false > /desktop/gnome/applications/at/screen_reader_enabled=false > > but nothing related to /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename. Why > Sun gdm's is so poor? Or am i missing something?
When you say "Why Sun gdm's is so poor", do you mean poorly documented? Actually the ConsoleKit and GDM manpages were written by a Sun employee, me. Although I have provided the manpages to the upstream projects upstream in bugzilla, I don't think any other distro even ships manpages with the new gdm yet. Not so poor, really. As you point out, the key for changing the background image is a gnome-settings-daemon key, not a GDM specific key. Since the new GDM uses gnome-settings-daemon, metacity, and gnome-session, you can modify such keys for the "gdm" user and they should take affect. So, to change the background image, you should run these commands: $ su - $ su - gdm $ gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/var/lib/gdm/.gconf.mandatory -t string -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/opensolaris/stream.jpg I added the above example to the manpage. Currently the gdm manpage only documents configuration options that it introduces. However, this gnome-settings-daemon GConf key is likely one that users will want to change, so its good to document it. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Brian
