Re: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen [SOLVED]

2010-04-22 Thread Patrick DERWAEL
The directory indicated on ElderGeek is wrong, check this: cat /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf | grep GraphicalTheme= Cheers 2010/4/21 MHR > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Patrick DERWAEL > wrote: > > Well, I have had to tweak this it a little, bit it finally worked fine. > > Initlally, the ari

Re: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen

2010-04-21 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Sorin Srbu >Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 9:20 AM >To: 'CentOS mailing list' >Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen > >>

Re: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen [SOLVED]

2010-04-21 Thread MHR
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Alvin Chang wrote: > updatedb? > Doubted it, but: [...@mhrichter ~]$ sudo updatedb Password: [...@mhrichter ~]$ locate gdm.conf [...@mhrichter ~]$ locate kdm.conf [...@mhrichter ~]$ locate xdm.conf [...@mhrichter ~]$ Seems more than a little strange... [...@m

Re: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen [SOLVED]

2010-04-21 Thread Alvin Chang
updatedb? On 21 April 2010 18:00, MHR wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Alvin Chang > wrote: > > > > look for kdm.conf or xdm.conf... > > Hmm - am running GNOME, but: > > [...@mhrichter ~]$ locate xdm.conf > [...@mhrichter ~]$ locate kdm.conf > [...@mhrichter ~]$ > > ??? > > mhr > _

Re: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen [SOLVED]

2010-04-21 Thread MHR
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Alvin Chang wrote: > > look for kdm.conf or xdm.conf... Hmm - am running GNOME, but: [...@mhrichter ~]$ locate xdm.conf [...@mhrichter ~]$ locate kdm.conf [...@mhrichter ~]$ ??? mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cent

Re: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen [SOLVED]

2010-04-21 Thread Alvin Chang
On 21 April 2010 17:53, MHR wrote: > > [...@mhrichter ~]$ cat /etc/gdm/gdm.conf | grep GraphicalTheme= > cat: /etc/gdm/gdm.conf: No such file or directory > [...@mhrichter ~]$ locate gdm.conf > > > > So, how does this work under CentOS? > > look for kdm.conf or xdm.conf... -- Alvin Chang _

Re: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen [SOLVED]

2010-04-21 Thread MHR
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Patrick DERWAEL wrote: > Well, I have had to tweak this it a little, bit it finally worked fine. > Initlally, the arial.ttf could not be found, so that I had to force the use > of courier regular > I'm using the standard default Treeflower theme. I'm late to this

Re: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen [SOLVED]

2010-04-21 Thread Patrick DERWAEL
Well, I have had to tweak this it a little, bit it finally worked fine. Initlally, the arial.ttf could not be found, so that I had to force the use of courier regular I'm using the standard default Treeflower theme. The following does toe job: cd /usr/share/gdm/themes/TreeFlower/background.png \ /

Re: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen

2010-04-21 Thread Georghy
content of the file > /etc/issue > > > Regards. > > > > > > > > -Message d'origine- > De : centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] De la part > de Patrick Derwael > Envoyé : mardi 20 avril 2010 19:49 > À : 'CentO

Re: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen

2010-04-21 Thread MOKRANI Rachid
part de Patrick Derwael Envoyé : mardi 20 avril 2010 19:49 À : 'CentOS mailing list' Objet : Re: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen This is a good step, but how do I get the contents of /etc/issue on the gui ?? Patrick Derwael Rue Hubert Larock, 20 4280 Hannut -

Re: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen

2010-04-21 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Sorin Srbu >Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 9:12 AM >To: 'CentOS mailing list' >Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen > >

Re: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen

2010-04-21 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Mogens Kjaer >Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 7:35 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen > >On 04/20/2010 0

Re: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen

2010-04-20 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Patrick Derwael >Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 7:49 PM >To: 'CentOS mailing list' >Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen > >

Re: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen

2010-04-20 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 04/20/2010 07:49 PM, Patrick Derwael wrote: > Ideally, it should be displayed on the GUI, like the date/time and hostname http://elder-geek.blogspot.com/2009/09/ip-address-on-gdm-login-page.html Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby,

Re: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen

2010-04-20 Thread Athmane Madjoudj
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Patrick Derwael wrote: > This is a good step, but how do I get the contents of /etc/issue on the gui > ?? cat /etc/issue | zenity --text-info --width 530 ps. i'm not sure if zenity is standard in CentOS, otherwise install EPEL repo. -- Athmane Madjoudj __

Re: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen

2010-04-20 Thread Patrick Derwael
This is a good step, but how do I get the contents of /etc/issue on the gui ?? Patrick Derwael Rue Hubert Larock, 20 4280 Hannut - Belgique G: +32 (0)479.80.50.79 T : +32 (0)19.63.64.45 try a bash script like the following : #!/bin/sh ADRESS=`ifconfig | grep "inet addr" | awk '{print $2}' |

Re: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen

2010-04-20 Thread Patrick Derwael
Ideally, it should be displayed on the GUI, like the date/time and hostname -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Sorin Srbu Sent: mardi 20 avril 2010 16:22 To: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to disp

Re: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen

2010-04-20 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, Georghy wrote: > try a bash script like the following : > > #!/bin/sh > ADRESS=`ifconfig | grep "inet addr" | awk '{print $2}' | sed s/addr:// | > head -n 1` > echo "The IP adress is : $ADRESS." > /etc/issue Or, if you'd rather use the iproute toolset rather than ifconfig: i

Re: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen

2010-04-20 Thread Georghy
Sorin Srbu a écrit : > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf > Of Patrick DERWAEL > Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 4:01 PM > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen > > Hi all, > I'm running CentOS 5.4 in a VMware g

Re: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen

2010-04-20 Thread Sorin Srbu
From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Patrick DERWAEL Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 4:01 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen Hi all, I'm running CentOS 5.4 in a VMware guest, with the host connected to a

Re: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen

2010-04-20 Thread m . roth
> Hi all, > > I'm running CentOS 5.4 in a VMware guest, with the host connected to a > DHCP enabled LAN > When CentOS comes up, I would like to see the IP adress displayed on the > welcome screen. > This would save me the hassle of logging in the VM, getting the IP, and > logging off before finally