Login Window Preferences: custom welcome message does not take effect.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubuntu-gdm-themes (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Ubuntu 7.10 Gusty Gibbon, default install, all packages up-to-date at the time of this writing.
Dell Inspiron 6000 Notebook, specific hardware specifications available on request but are probably irrelevant.
To reproduce:
On the panel which is by default on the top of the desktop,
open the system menu,
under "Administration", select "Login Window".
Under the "Local" tab, select a custom welcome message, exit.
Reboot the system.
Behavior:
Upon loading, gdm will continue to display the default message, "Welcome".
Other configuration changes to the login window take effect as normal.
To worksaround:
Edit the gdm.conf-custom file:
In GNOME, open a terminal and type "sudo gedit /etc/gdm/
On a new line under the line reading "DefaultWelcome
Do not surround the welcome message string in quotation marks.
Etiology:
The Login Window Preferences applet correctly specifies that a custom welcome message is to be used ("DefaultWelcom
Other notes:
The Login Window Preferences applet also does not recognize a custom welcome message manually added to /etc/gdm/
Changed in gdm: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
affects: | gdm (Ubuntu) → ubuntu-gdm-themes (Ubuntu) |
Changed in ubuntu-gdm-themes (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
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