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Re: gdm3 greeter banner question

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On 2016-11-29, Malmberg, Breen <bemalmbe@lanl.gov> wrote:
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> I am attempting to display a lengthy text warning banner, in the GUI, befor=
> e the user logs in, while also having the display-user-list=3Dfalse option =
> set.
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> How do I do this? When you set the display-user-list=3Dfalse option it appe=
> ars to also disable the warning banner text display area, at login.
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> I have also attempted to change the login background (wallpaper?), but as f=
> ar as I can determine, no such option exists in gdm3 and the only thing you=
>  can change is the login logo, which is just a tiny little thing on the log=
> in screen and inadequate for my purposes.
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> I am using Debian 8 (jessie)
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> Please advise

To change the background, see the "Theming options" section in
/etc/gdm3/greeter.dconf-defaults. There is also a "Show a login welcome
message" section in that file, but I've never used it.

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Liam

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gdm3 greeter banner question "Malmberg, Breen" <bemalmbe@lanl.gov> - 2016-11-29 23:30 +0100
  Re: gdm3 greeter banner question Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2016-11-30 10:10 +0100
  Re: gdm3 greeter banner question Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-30 23:40 +0100
    Re: gdm3 greeter banner question "Malmberg, Breen" <bemalmbe@lanl.gov> - 2016-12-01 00:50 +0100

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