[geeks] The illusion of Windows 7

Nate nate at portents.com
Sat Oct 31 19:28:09 CDT 2009


> BTW, the first thing I found with UBUNTU 9.10 is that it offers you  
> a list
> of user's full names if you use the gnome display manager to prompt  
> your for
> an X windows login, and the usual ways of turning it off in the  
> gdm.conf file
> no longer work.

A quick google turned up this:

sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --set --type boolean /apps/gdm/simple-greeter / 
disable_user_list true

 From what I read doesn't really restore things to how they were, but  
it's a step in the right direction.

- Nate



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