I have a number of machines, all running FC7 or FC8. I recently decided to have a look at FC9, so took the least important of my machines, reformatted / (left /home intact), and did the clean install. Seemed to go fine.
However, once I fired up FC9, ran into a slew of issues - some minor, some less so. I'll start with a minor one - where the heck is the menu item to change attributes of the login screen? On all my other Fedora boxes, its System | Administration | Login Screen. But, on the Fedora 9 box, no such menu item (come to think of it - several of other menu items I normally find on System | Administration are missing, but I'll start with the Login Screen item.
Oh, and before someone asks, logged in to default gnome desktop as root.
I'm stumped/puzzled. Suggestions? Pointers to the obvious?
> I have a number of machines, all running FC7 or FC8. I recently decided > to have a look at FC9, so took the least important of my machines, > reformatted / (left /home intact), and did the clean install. Seemed to > go fine.
> However, once I fired up FC9, ran into a slew of issues - some minor, > some less so. I'll start with a minor one - where the heck is the menu > item to change attributes of the login screen? On all my other Fedora > boxes, its System | Administration | Login Screen. But, on the Fedora 9 > box, no such menu item (come to think of it - several of other menu > items I normally find on System | Administration are missing, but I'll > start with the Login Screen item.
> Oh, and before someone asks, logged in to default gnome desktop as root.
> I'm stumped/puzzled. Suggestions? Pointers to the obvious?
Oh, and I looked for gdmsetup in all the usual places - doesn't exist.
How very weird. Perhaps Redhat/Fedora doesn't want us to play with the spiffy read: annoying) new gdm?
>> I have a number of machines, all running FC7 or FC8. I recently >> decided to have a look at FC9, so took the least important of my >> machines, reformatted / (left /home intact), and did the clean >> install. Seemed to go fine.
>> However, once I fired up FC9, ran into a slew of issues - some minor, >> some less so. I'll start with a minor one - where the heck is the menu >> item to change attributes of the login screen? On all my other Fedora >> boxes, its System | Administration | Login Screen. But, on the Fedora >> 9 box, no such menu item (come to think of it - several of other menu >> items I normally find on System | Administration are missing, but I'll >> start with the Login Screen item.
>> Oh, and before someone asks, logged in to default gnome desktop as root.
>> I'm stumped/puzzled. Suggestions? Pointers to the obvious?
> Oh, and I looked for gdmsetup in all the usual places - doesn't exist.
> How very weird. Perhaps Redhat/Fedora doesn't want us to play with the > spiffy read: annoying) new gdm?
Actually it's Gnome (i.e., the Gnome Project) that doesn't provide the option/utility to change the greeter (aka login screen). Lots of other folks have complained about its inflexibility, too.
If you get ambitious, there are some things you can change by editing the GConf structures for the gdm user. Like you can hide the reboot/shutdown buttons if you want (and a very few other useless things). As of about a week ago, Gnome added an option to hide the user list on the login screen, an excellent improvement that would be nice if it came downstream to Fedora.
The best documentation on what you can and cannot do is at www.gnome.org.
