[gnome-user-docs] Quick review of login-banner page
- From: David King <davidk src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gnome-user-docs] Quick review of login-banner page
- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 23:42:20 +0000 (UTC)
commit 7afaf289159ef49a29f22d828cc97466d818e63b
Author: David King <amigadave amigadave com>
Date: Tue Jun 17 19:41:06 2014 -0400
Quick review of login-banner page
system-admin-guide/C/login-banner.page | 72 +++++++++-------------
system-admin-guide/C/login-userlist-disable.page | 1 +
2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/system-admin-guide/C/login-banner.page b/system-admin-guide/C/login-banner.page
index 87d7db2..c37c00b 100644
--- a/system-admin-guide/C/login-banner.page
+++ b/system-admin-guide/C/login-banner.page
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
<link type="guide" xref="login#appearance"/>
<link type="seealso" xref="gdm-restart"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.8" date="2013-04-19" status="review"/>
+ <revision pkgversion="3.14" date="2014-06-17" status="review"/>
<credit type="author copyright">
<name>Matthias Clasen</name>
@@ -28,10 +29,13 @@
<email its:translate="no">kittykat3756 gmail com</email>
<years>2013</years>
</credit>
+ <credit type="editor">
+ <name>David King</name>
+ <email its:translate="no">davidk gnome org</email>
+ <years>2014</years>
+ </credit>
- <desc>Edit a <sys its:translate="no">GDM</sys>
- <sys its:translate="no">dconf</sys> profile to display a text banner on the
- login screen.</desc>
+ <desc>Show extra text on the login screen.</desc>
</info>
<title>Display a text banner on the login screen</title>
@@ -41,48 +45,32 @@
<p>Adapted from l-g-o SysAdminGuide page.</p>
</comment>
- <p>The text banner on the login screen is controlled by the following
- <sys its:translate="no">GSettings</sys> keys:</p>
+ <p>You can display extra text on the login screen, such as who to contact for
+ support, by setting the
+ <sys>org.gnome.login-screen.banner-message-enable</sys> and
+ <sys>org.gnome.login-screen.banner-message-text</sys> GSettings keys.</p>
-<terms>
- <item>
- <title><code>org.gnome.login-screen.banner-message-enable</code></title>
- <p>enables showing the banner message.</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <title><code>org.gnome.login-screen.banner-message-text</code></title>
- <p>shows the text banner message in the login window.</p>
- </item>
-</terms>
-
-<steps>
- <title>Display a text banner on the login screen:</title>
- <item><p>Add a keyfile to the
- <file its:translate="no">/etc/dconf/db/gdm.d</file> directory and name it,
- for example, <file>01-banner-message</file>.</p></item>
- <item><p>Add the following content to the file:</p>
-<screen its:translate="no">[org/gnome/login-screen]
+ <steps>
+ <title>Display a text banner on the login screen:</title>
+ <include href="dconf-profile-gdm.xml"
+ xpointer="xmlns(mal=http://projectmallard.org/1.0/)xpointer(/mal:page/mal:steps/mal:item)"
+ xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
+ <item><p>Create a <sys>gdm</sys> keyfile for machine-wide settings in
+ <file its:translate="no">/etc/dconf/db/gdm.d/01-banner-message</file>:</p>
+ <code its:translate="no">[org/gnome/login-screen]
banner-message-enable=true
banner-message-text='<input its:translate="yes">Type the banner message here.</input>'
-</screen>
- </item>
- <item><p>Update the system databases:</p>
- <screen><output># </output><input>dconf update</input></screen>
- </item>
-</steps>
-
-<note>
- <p>You should keep the banner message reasonably short as longer texts do not
- fit in the screen.</p>
-</note>
+</code>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Update the system databases:</p>
+ <screen><output># </output><input>dconf update</input></screen>
+ </item>
+ </steps>
-<section id="troubleshooting-banner">
-<title>Troubleshooting: what if the banner message does not update?</title>
- <p>If the banner message does not show, make sure you have run the
- <cmd>dconf update</cmd> command.</p>
- <p>In case the banner message does not update, try restarting
- <sys>GDM</sys>. For more information see
- <link xref="gdm-restart"/>.</p>
+ <note>
+ <p>You should keep the banner message reasonably short, as longer texts do
+ not fit on the screen.</p>
+ </note>
-</section>
</page>
diff --git a/system-admin-guide/C/login-userlist-disable.page
b/system-admin-guide/C/login-userlist-disable.page
index ca2bc78..995bf04 100644
--- a/system-admin-guide/C/login-userlist-disable.page
+++ b/system-admin-guide/C/login-userlist-disable.page
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="login#appearance" />
+ <link type="seealso" xref="gdm-restart"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.11" date="2014-01-29" status="draft"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.14" date="2014-06-17" status="review"/>
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