Login screen user list

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sun Nov 1 17:37:58 UTC 2009


On 10/31/2009 11:58 PM, Florian Diesch wrote:
> PleegWat <pleegwat at telfort.nl> writes:
> 
>> How do I turn the user list off? I prefer having to type in the user 
>> name. I'm pretty sure the looks and functionality could be configured 
>> before (under System/Administration/Login screen) but that only offers 
>> an autologin option.
> 
> In GConf set /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list to True (using
> gconf-editor or gconftool)
> 
> 
>    Florian

Unless something's changed in the past week or so, that didn't work for
me. Does it work for you? I had to use Alvin's solution:
$ sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --set --type boolean
/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true








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