Re: [gdm-list] machine names in themes

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Yan:

Refer to the chooser/DefaultHostImg and chooser/HostImageDir
configuration settings.  I think they do what you want.  Have you
looked at the GDM documations here.  Refer to section 5.2.6:

  http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/docs/2.16/configuration.html

> I want to build a single greeter theme, host it on the main server, and 
> export it via nfs.  Each client would then mount it, and use it.  The 
> kicker is that each machine has its own icon, so I want to also have a 
> directory of icons by machine name also exported via nfs.
>
> When the client creates it greeter screen from the theme, I want it to 
> use its own icon.
>
> I've done this in the past with symlinks, but it was a real headache to 
> administer.
>
> It would be much cleaner to be able to say, file=%m".jpg" but that's 
> only allowed in text nodes and not item nodes....

Brian