getting rid of gdm's user list (Karmic)

[Adam Funk]

On 2009-12-08, Markus Schönhaber wrote:

> 08.12.2009 12:29, Adam Funk:
>
>> Has anyone succeeded in getting rid of the user list in the new
>> (Karmic) gdm login screen?  (I do *not* want auto-log-in.)
>
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2009-October/199823.html
>

That worked!

sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --set --type boolean /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true

Thanks.

But I don't understand why they changed a perfectly good log-in screen
*and* forced people to use clunky methods like this to restore the old
defaults (rather than a nice /etc/*.conf file).