Comment 3 for bug 177745

I can partially confirm this bug in hardy. The gdm.conf-custom has the appropriate configuration changed, however gdm still does not display the welcome message. This is because the default theme for ubuntu has no welcome message reference. I have provided my patched /usr/share/gdm/themes/Human/Human.xml with the fix in place.

If it is desirable for the welcome message not to be displayed by default, may I suggest the developers modify the default GDM greeting (in the source for gdmgreeter) to be an empty string instead of being "Welcome to %n". The default GDM login screen will be the same as the current default install, but will allow administrators to change the theme using existing graphical tools rather than forcing them to edit system files manually.