GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 303957
(RFE) add ability to easily display arbitrary text in graphical display
Last modified: 2005-05-13 16:49:25 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.
This is not a problem with gdm but is with the Red Hat/Fedora Core them for gdm ... closing