1
<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
2
xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
3
type="topic" style="task"
7
<link type="guide" xref="index" group="login" />
8
<revision pkgversion="3.8" version="0.1" date="2013-04-19" status="review"/>
10
<credit type="author copyright">
11
<name>Matthias Clasen</name>
12
<email its:translate="no">matthias.clasen@gmail.com</email>
15
<credit type="author copyright">
16
<name>Michael Hill</name>
17
<email its:translate="no">mdhillca@gmail.com</email>
20
<credit type="author copyright">
21
<name>Jana Svarova</name>
22
<email its:translate="no">jana.svarova@gmail.com</email>
25
<credit type="author copyright editor">
26
<name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
27
<email its:translate="no">kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
31
<desc>Edit a <sys its:translate="no">GDM</sys> <sys its:translate="no">dconf</sys> profile to display a text banner on the login screen.</desc>
34
<title>Add text to the login screen</title>
37
<cite date="2012-11-07" href="mailto:mdhillca@gmail.com">Michael Hill</cite>
38
<p>Adapted from l-g-o SysAdminGuide page.</p>
41
<p>The text banner on the login screen is controlled by the
42
<cmd>org.gnome.login-screen.banner-message-enable</cmd> and
43
<cmd>org.gnome.login-screen.banner-message-text</cmd>
44
<sys its:translate="no">GSettings</sys> keys.
45
<sys its:translate="no">GDM</sys> uses its own
46
<sys its:translate="no">dconf</sys> profile. To change settings in this
47
profile, add a key file to the
48
<file its:translate="no">/etc/dconf/db/gdm.d</file> directory and run
49
<cmd its:translate="no">dconf update</cmd>.</p>
52
<title>Sample <file its:translate="no">/etc/dconf/db/gdm.d/01-banner-message</file> file</title>
53
<code its:translate="no">[org/gnome/login-screen]
54
banner-message-enable=true
55
banner-message-text='<input its:translate="yes">Type the banner message here.</input>'
60
<p><sys its:translate="no">dconf</sys> key files are slightly different
61
from <sys its:translate="no">GSettings</sys> override files.</p>
66
<title>What if the banner message does not display?</title>
70
<p>Apparently the message may not be displayed if the theme does not
71
support it. Find out if this is really the case and how to check the
77
<section id="prob-update">
78
<title>What if the banner message does not update?</title>