Re: how to change "Doubleclick on the user to log in"

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 12:20:16PM +0200, Richard Gill math uu nl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Noone responded to my question of a few days ago so I hope you folks
> will not mind if I ask it again. It concerns the graphical greeter in gdm.
> I'm using gdm 2.6.0 and Fedora Core II.

Sorry my inbox is just exploding and I'm losing my battle to keep up
(actually I'm not fighting very hard :)

> During log-in with the graphical greeter,
> if you click on a user's face their username is entered into the
> dialogue box and you see the message "Doubleclick on the user to log in".
> 
> I'd like to change this message into (e.g.)
> "Click after your name in the dialogue box, and hit 'Enter'"
> 
> I looked in various gdm directories but could not find where this text
> is taken from. Do I have to go to the source and rebuild gdm?
> Where will I find the prompt messages?

Yes you would have to rebuild gdm, this is in the gui/greeter/ subdirectory,
can't exactly remember which file.  Just grep for it.

> That was the question. Then a comment. The login procedure is clumsy.
> After you have clicked on your face, you'd just like to type in your
> password next. Why do anything else? (the only other possibility
> would be to click another face, or type another name,
> because you noticed you'd chosen the  wrong one).
> 
> The present text "Doubleclick on the user to log in" is extremely
> annoying since, as far as I can see, you still have to doubleclick
> TWICE on the face to long in (and you've already clicked once...).

The double double clicking is an annoying bug that I've been completely
unable to reproduce as it has always just worked right for me.  I think this
has to do with some failure with pam and some specific pam setup.  That is I
suppose for some reason pam must refuse to initialize with a username the
second time around and only does it the third time around.  I suppose some
evil hack might work around this but since I haven't been able to reproduce
this I can't quite test that out.

George

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