Bug#601479: gdm3: Problem with gconfiguration

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mardi 26 octobre 2010 à 18:24 +0200, Moritz Molle a écrit :
> gdmsetup doesn't offer every possible gconf-option, which gdm3 offers. 
> So I tried to use gconf-editor to suppress the user-listing in the 
> gdm-greeter.
> 
> Didn't work. Of course not, gdm of course doesn't read the gconf from 
> my user. So I sux'ed and gconf'ed. Still didn't work.
> 
> Then I realized, that gdm runs as the user Debian-gdm. sux'ing to 
> Debian-gdm and /then/ running gconf-editor helped. But that's too 
> complicated. And not at all documented.

Actually all you need is to set default values with gconf-editor.

Another way is to edit /etc/gdm3/greeter.gconf-defaults, as already
documented in README.Debian.

Cheers,
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