Fedora 10 login screen and terminal windows

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Fri Feb 6 16:17:18 UTC 2009


Hi Margret
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suomi

Margaret Doll wrote:
> Another complaint I have is with the terminal windows.  When I am using 
> black lettering on a white background, the black lettering look more 
> like gray.   With my aging eyes I would really like to have the 
> lettering  a real black.  I have played with the "color" terminal window 
> settings, but haven't seen an improvement.
> 
> 
> On Feb 5, 2009, at 7:51 PM, solarflow99 wrote:
> 
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>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Margaret Doll <Margaret_Doll at brown.edu 
>> <mailto:Margaret_Doll at brown.edu>> wrote:
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>>         On Feb 4, 2009, at 6:34 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
>>
>>             On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:39:55 -0430
>>             Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>
>>                 You haven't said which display manager you're using.
>>                 If it's gdm, the
>>                 above instructions presumably should work (I wouldn't
>>                 know).
>>
>>
>>             Odds are good if it is gdm changes won't take effect till
>>             you reboot
>>             or run some obscure undocumented tool to make gdm reread the
>>             config info.
>>
>>
>>         I installed gconf-editor and ran the program.     There was no
>>         disable_user_list box
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>         /etc/gdm/custom.conf  initially contained
>>
>>                [xdmcp]
>>                [chooser]
>>                [security]
>>                [debug]
>>
>>
>>
>>         gconftool-2 --config-source
>>         xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf.xml.defaults --direct --type bool
>>         --set /apps/adm/simplgreeter/disable_user_list true
>>
>>         executed.
>>
>>         However after a reboot,  I still have the first two accounts
>>         showing up with the "Other" login on the login screen.  
>>         /etc/gdm/custom.conf has no changes.  When I use gconf-editor,
>>         I still see the same entries as before I issued the
>>         gconftool-2 command.
>>
>>
>> ya, it didnt work for me either, I tried everything.  So now I just 
>> used SLiM and dont need GDM at all.  There is no user list and its faster.
>>
>>
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