On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:37:15PM +0000, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: > 2009/3/12 Tim <ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au>: > > On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 11:05 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: > >> This should work fine: > >> > >> $ su - # enter root password at prompt > >> $ GCONFSYS=$(gconftool-2 --get-default-source) > >> $ gconftool-2 --config-source=$GCONFSYS --set > >> /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list \ > >> --type bool true > >> > >> Just tried it on my F10 box and it works like a charm. You can't get > >> rid of the "Other..." selection AFAICT, but all the other faces > >> disappear as expected. If you want the faces back, use "false." > > > > Doesn't change a thing, on Fedora 9. And I have rebooted. I've tried > > something like that before, too (as posted on this list a week or so > > ago), with the same lack of success. > > > > I should make it clear that I'm not trying to hide face pictures in the > > chooser, I don't want any list of names. > > I have a feeling that Paul's solution won't work because GDM in Fedora > 9 (unless it's changed massively since I upgraded) isn't configured in > GConf. You will probably find that my /etc/gdm/custom.conf solution > works, because when I wrote that customisation in our organisational > installer, that is what I was using.
Changing /etc/gdm/custom.conf doesn't work on F10, for sure. All it contained before I edited it was empty sections xdcmp, chooser, security, and debug. I added: [greeter] browser=false and it makes no diff at all. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community. --Roger Ebert, December, 1996 ----------------------------- The Boulder Pledge -----------------------------
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