tailored message on gdm greeter screen

[Alexander Larsson]

On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 23:58, Paul Morgan wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 13:00, Gene C. wrote:
> > I would like to put a tailored message on the gdm graphical greeter screen to 
> > indicate just which version of the system I am running -- I have multiple 
> > version installed on the same hardware and it is sometimes not clear which is 
> > running/has been booted.
> > 
> > I tried using the Systems Settings/Login Screen tool for gdm setting but 
> > changing messages there seems to have no effect.
> > 
> > Any ideas/tips?
> 
> Have you looked at /usr/share/gdm/themes/Bluecurve/Bluecurve.xml.in (or
> its progeny /usr/share/gdm/themes/Bluecurve/Bluecurve.xml)?
> 
> You could probably call a small script from rc.local in which you use
> sed to insert the current version or other info into the greeter. 
> 
> Aside: is it documented somewhere which variables are allowed in this
> xml file (similar to %h)?

I don't think so. But the code says:
%h hostname
%o domainname
%d timed login delay
%s timed login string
%c clock

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