Re: [gdm-list] Face Browser weirdness in 2.8.0.5

[Brandon Kuczenski <brandon 301south net>]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Brian Cameron wrote:

> Brandon:
>
> I suspect that your problem may do with your file system ownership
> and permissions.  Try turning on "Enable=true" in the "debug" section
> of your GDM configuration file.  Then see if there are any useful
> error messages in the syslog (usually /var/log/messages on Linux).
> Usually when GDM ignores files it will display a message to the
> log.
>
> Note the RelaxPermissions in the gdm configuration file, this can
> be used to tell GDM to not be so picky on the ownership/permissions
> of various files.  Does changing RelaxPermissions make things work
> better?  If so, it's probably better to fix the permissions issues
> rather then relaxing the permissions, but this would identify if
> this is the problem.
>
> Another issue is that GDM will *not* load face images over NFS
> anymore due to performance issues.  If your global face dir is
> NFS mounted, then consider making it local.  If you *really* want
> the global face directory to be over NFS, then we probably need to
> fix the code to support this.  If this is your problem, I could
> guide you how to hack the code to get this working for you.
>
> Brian


Thanks; the problem was filesize and permissions.  I had changed the 
maximum pixel size of the icons, thinking that referred to the face icons, 
but I hadn't set the filesize to be large enough to accomodate the files. 
There was also an ownership problem which is fixed now.

I wonder, is it possible to make the GDM window bigger? I have all this 
empty space on my monitor, and a tiny little 300-pixel window into which I 
have to pile all the faces of all my users.  I don't see a config option 
for this anywhere, though.

Thanks again,

-Brandon