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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/gdm.conf-custom".
On a new line under the line reading "DefaultWelcome=false", type: "Welcome="
immediately followed by the desired welcome message.
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 ("DefaultWelcome=false"), but does not write a "Welcome="
value to /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-config, causing gdm to continue to use the default.
Other notes:
The Login Window Preferences applet also does not recognize a custom welcome
message manually added to /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom as described in the
workaround.
** Affects: gdm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: custom gdm gdm.conf gdm.conf-custom login message preferences welcome
window
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Login Window Preferences: custom welcome message does not take effect.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/177745
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