Fedora 10 login screen and terminal windows

[Margaret Doll]

Thanks.   I also found that "Lucinda Typewriter" without the bold  
actually was black on white and is easy to read.


On Feb 6, 2009, at 11:17 AM, fedora wrote:

> Hi Margret
> try using a bold font (Edit/Preferences/General)
>
> 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:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Margaret Doll <Margaret_Doll at brown.edu 
>>>  <mailto:Margaret_Doll at brown.edu>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>        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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