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Bug 303957 - (RFE) add ability to easily display arbitrary text in graphical display
(RFE) add ability to easily display arbitrary text in graphical display
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.6.0.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-05-12 20:15 UTC by Gene Czarcinski
Modified: 2005-05-13 16:49 UTC
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Description Gene Czarcinski 2005-05-12 20:15:09 UTC
This RFE may be of limited value but on the other hand it may be useful to a
number of people.  I have no way of judging that.  If it is judged that this is
not generally useful, I would appreciate being pointed to the appropriate code
... maybe I can develop a patch.

The problem:

I run multiple hardware systems and also multiple version of systems on them. 
While the graphical loging panel does name the system, there is no indication
just what system (what version of the OS) is being run -- such as if the text in
/etc/redhat-release (or /etc/fedora-release) was displayed.

My request is to add the capability to define arbitrary (within reasonable
limits) text to be displayed on the graphical login screen.

The standard greeter has the ability to specify the Welcome string.  I would
like a similar capability for the graphical greeter.
Comment 1 Gene Czarcinski 2005-05-13 16:49:25 UTC
This is not a problem with gdm but is with the Red Hat/Fedora Core them for gdm
... closing