On 12/29/09 05:26 PM, Brian Cameron wrote:
>
>
> To set the GDM configuration settings, you need to ensure:
>
> 1) That you have write permissions to the gdm user's directory.
> 2) That you modify the right GConf directory. GDM does not use the
> default ~gdm/.gconf directory. Instead it uses separate GConf
> directories in a per-seat (or per-display) fashion. The GConf
> directory for each set is in the ~gdm/(SeatName)/.gconf directory.
> Users should probably just modify the ~gdm/.gconf.mandatory
> setting as recommended by the examples in the manpage, since
> this ensures the setting is visible to all seats.
>
> Note that you do need to restart GDM by running "svcadm restart gdm"
> or by rebooting for configuration changes to take effect.
>
> Since the command I provided failed with a permissions error, could
> you verify that you have write permission to the ~gdm/.gconf.mandatory
> directory when you are the gdm user? If not, there may be a permissions
> problem on the directory that may need fixing. If this is the problem,
> you may need to chmod the directory as a workaround for now.
>
that's the problem!
gdm at ultra20:~$ ls -lsd /var/lib/gdm/.gconf.mandatory
3 drwxr-x--T 2 root gdm 3 d?c. 29 11:20
/var/lib/gdm/.gconf.mandatory
after chown:
chown gdm /var/lib/gdm/.gconf.mandatory
everything is ok, and i can have my pretty desktop background and the
Face Browser (as it is the home machine)
very thanks for all your replies and help
gerard
