<p>Well, I have had to tweak this it a little, bit it finally worked fine.<br>Initlally, the arial.ttf could not be found, so that I had to force the use of courier regular<br>I'm using the standard default Treeflower theme.<br>
The following does toe job:</p>
<p>cd /usr/share/gdm/themes/TreeFlower/background.png \<br>/usr/share/gdm/themes/TreeFlower/background-original.png</p>
<p>gedit /etc/gdm/Init/Default</p>
<p>Insert the following lines<br>cd /usr/share/gdm/themes/TreeFlower<br>convert -pointsize 40 -font Courier-Regular -draw \<br>"fill yellow text 1500,200 \" \<br>`ifconfig eth0 | awk '/inet addr/{print $2 }'`\"" \<br>
background-original.png background.png</p>
<p>between<br>sysmodmap=/etc/X11/Xmodmap</p>
<p>and<br>XMODMAP=`gdmwhich xmodmap`</p>
<p>Thanks for the help !!<br><br></p>
<div class="gmail_quote">2010/4/21 Mogens Kjaer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mk@crc.dk">mk@crc.dk</a>></span><br>
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<div class="im">On 04/20/2010 07:49 PM, Patrick Derwael wrote:<br>> Ideally, it should be displayed on the GUI, like the date/time and hostname<br><br></div><a href="http://elder-geek.blogspot.com/2009/09/ip-address-on-gdm-login-page.html" target="_blank">http://elder-geek.blogspot.com/2009/09/ip-address-on-gdm-login-page.html</a><br>
<br>Mogens<br><font color="#888888">--<br>Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department<br>Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark<br>Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Mobile: +45 22 12 53 25<br>Email: <a href="mailto:mk@crc.dk">mk@crc.dk</a> Homepage: <a href="http://www.crc.dk/" target="_blank">http://www.crc.dk</a><br>
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