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Bryan
Asked: 2011-10-19 14:14:30 +0800 CST

Show banner at login with LightDM

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I just upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 and I was wondering if it's possible to show a login banner with text... my company's IT policy requires that some generic text be shown at login. I've seen where you can change the background, so I guess I could make a background with the text in it, but I wanted to see if there is another way.

In Ubuntu 11.04, I was able to do this with the following commands...

sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --type string  --set /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/banner_message_text "`cat issue.txt`" 
sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --type string  --set /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/banner_message_text_nochooser "`cat issue.txt`" 
sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/banner_message_enable true
11.10

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Answers provided to Hamish Downer's question about LightDM themes linked in the comment to my original question include a suitable answer to this question as well.

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