Re: gdm3 greeter banner question
Brian, I did a search as you suggested and came up with a lot of other people experiencing and discussing the same issue. I tracked it down to a bug that had been filed a little over 3 years ago, with gdm3 which was introduced some time between 3.4 and 3.14. Eventually they made a patch for it (version 3.15 of gdm3 - and that was over a year ago) but that patch has not since been included in any stable release of debian nor any official debian repo, and it does not appear that the 3.15 package is available for jessie, even as a standalone (see pkgs.org). Apparently, debian Sid (unstable release) includes gdm3 version 3.22, but no word yet on the release date of the next stable version (Stretch) of debian after that :( Don't know why it took them so long to include this gdm3 patch.. Unfortunately for me, upgrading to an unstable release, org-wide, is not an option. From: Brian Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2016 3:35 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: gdm3 greeter banner question On Tue 29 Nov 2016 at 21:55:13 +, Malmberg, Breen wrote: > I am attempting to display a lengthy text warning banner, in the GUI, before > the user logs in, while also having the display-user-list=false option set. > > How do I do this? When you set the display-user-list=false option it appears > to also disable the warning banner text display area, at login. > > I have also attempted to change the login background (wallpaper?), but as far > as I can determine, no such option exists in gdm3 and the only thing you can > change is the login logo, which is just a tiny little thing on the login > screen and inadequate for my purposes. > > I am using Debian 8 (jessie) Searching the list archive for "Changing background for GDM3" could get you something. Does it? -- Brian.
Re: gdm3 greeter banner question
On Tue 29 Nov 2016 at 21:55:13 +, Malmberg, Breen wrote: > I am attempting to display a lengthy text warning banner, in the GUI, before > the user logs in, while also having the display-user-list=false option set. > > How do I do this? When you set the display-user-list=false option it appears > to also disable the warning banner text display area, at login. > > I have also attempted to change the login background (wallpaper?), but as far > as I can determine, no such option exists in gdm3 and the only thing you can > change is the login logo, which is just a tiny little thing on the login > screen and inadequate for my purposes. > > I am using Debian 8 (jessie) Searching the list archive for "Changing background for GDM3" could get you something. Does it? -- Brian.
Re: gdm3 greeter banner question
On 2016-11-29, Malmberg, Breen wrote: > --_000_148045651342734270lanlgov_ > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > I am attempting to display a lengthy text warning banner, in the GUI, befor= > e the user logs in, while also having the display-user-list=3Dfalse option = > set. > > > How do I do this? When you set the display-user-list=3Dfalse option it appe= > ars to also disable the warning banner text display area, at login. > > > I have also attempted to change the login background (wallpaper?), but as f= > ar as I can determine, no such option exists in gdm3 and the only thing you= > can change is the login logo, which is just a tiny little thing on the log= > in screen and inadequate for my purposes. > > I am using Debian 8 (jessie) > > > Please advise To change the background, see the "Theming options" section in /etc/gdm3/greeter.dconf-defaults. There is also a "Show a login welcome message" section in that file, but I've never used it. -- Liam
