On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:17:10 -0400 fred smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: > In later Fedora releases, GDM has become less and less functional: > configurability has been removed, more so as releases occur. From my > (known to be flaky) memory, that includes the ability to turn off the > silly list that exposes usernames right on the login screen, the > ability to assign your own wallpaper to the login screen, among other > things. There is a gconf setting to turn off the list of users. I've haven't tried it under CentOS 6, but it works under Fedora 14. I don't know how to fix the wallpaper except by changing the picture behind RPM's back. Or, up until F14, I was using a recompiled version of the CentOS 5 gdm rpm---that might work for C6. Fortunately, the C6 wallpaper is good enough that I don't feel compelled to tweak it. > In some releases you can hack your way around whatever the missing > feature is that you're missing by using gconf-editor, in others you > can't. The user list preference was broken for all of Fedora 13. Blech. There is a long open gnome bus to restore the gdm setting tool that went away around 2.22. The chances of having it back for gnome 2 are vanishingly small. I'm not holding my breath for the gnome 3 version either. > So, my guess is that RHEL/Centos 6 has inherited the later Gnome > "features" that have removed the feature you want. It's a sad day when Mac OS X is easier to customize than a Linux system. Jim