I had a quick look at the sources for you. Gnumeric is calling g_get_real_name():
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnumeric/tree/src/dialogs/dialog-cell-comment.c#n143 Which reads the password file: https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Miscellaneous-Utility-Functions.html#g-get-real-name Looking at the glib sources, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to disable this behaviour. The simplest solution would probably be to comment that line out of the gnumeric sources and build your own version. If you cook up a patch to remember the user's previous setting I imagine it would be welcomed. You could also change your real name in the passwd table to include a non-utf-8 character, but of course that might break some strange things. John On 16 November 2015 at 12:50, David Jennings <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm going to try this question again. I can't believe that no-one knows the > answer. > > In Gnumeric 1.12.17 whenever I create a comment on a cell it prefills New > Author with my name. I would rather it didn't do that but I can't find where > it's set. > > Where does the cell comment dialog get the Author name from? > > Thanks, David. > _______________________________________________ > gnumeric-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
