GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 597673
There's no simple way to disable the face browser
Last modified: 2009-10-07 18:40:58 UTC
What happens: Having upgraded to Karmic, I am presented with the new gdm login screen, with its list of users. Not liking this much, preferring the old method of entering my username and password (old habits, I guess) I go to the Login screen settings to hide the face browser and find that I can't. I can only: 1. Enable the face browser 2. Have the machine auto-login to a given user account with a delay so that others can log in if the automatic account isn't theirs. Neither of these are particularly satisfactory solutions. What should happen: gdmsetup should allow the user to disable the face browser, as used to be possible in previous releases. At the moment, the only way I can disable the face browser is by manually setting the disable_user_list gconf key, which is suboptimal for a non-cli-savvy user. Also, doing that then brings bug 591084 into play. This bug was originally reported at https://launchpad.net/bugs/445123.
Refer to the GDM 2.28.0 documentation: http://library.gnome.org/admin/gdm/2.28/configuration.html.en#greeterconfiguration This key controls whether the Face Browser is shown or not: /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list So, you can control this, though there isn't a nice gdmsetup GUI configuration tool. You need to set the GConf key by hand via gconftool-2 or gconf-editor. Remember you need to change the setting for the "gdm" user for the change to take effect. Marking this as NOTABUG. There is already a bug filed about the fact that gdmsetup needs to be re-integrated into the new GDM.
> Marking this as NOTABUG. There is already a bug filed about the fact that > gdmsetup needs to be re-integrated into the new GDM. Excellent. Can you point me at that bug so that I can update the Launchpad bug watch appropriately?
See bug #587750 for re-integrating gdmsetup features.