[arch-general] Xorg/kdm login screen addition
Listmates, I though I would run this idea by the list and see if there was any aversion to the idea of adding hostname information to the xorg/kdm login display. I wouldn't change a thing about the login look, it's awesome. What I would propose is adding to the existing login greeter the 'hostname' of the machine it is running on. What prompted this suggestion was the situation where I had an archlinux box connected vi xdmcp to my laptop on tty8. After a day or so of working on my local box, I switched back over to tty8 and the question immediately came to mind "Which Archlinux install is this?" because there was no way to immediately tell. (Don't get me wrong, I only have 2 Arch installs, so the answer wasn't critical) But the point to be made, and the basis for this suggestion, is that it would be nice to have the host information available. Just a small addition to the dialog, after or under the Archlinux logo, that says something like "on: host.domain.com". That way, you know at a glance who you are dealing with. Obviously, this is just a minimal enhancement, but the path to perfection is taken one step at a time. Anybody adverse to something like this? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
On Thursday 30 April 2009 18:37:41 David C. Rankin wrote: Hi, you can modify the KDM theme configuration to display the hostname. The themes are in /usr/share/apps/kdm/themes so just find the one you use and edit kdm.xml. You can now add some code to display the hostname, like: <item type="label"> <pos x="50%" y="50%" anchor="e"/> <text>%h</text> </item> Of course you want to put it somehere into the (sometimes quite complicated) hierarchy of <item>s to place it exacatly where you want it to be. Dan
Listmates,
I though I would run this idea by the list and see if there was any aversion to the idea of adding hostname information to the xorg/kdm login display.
I wouldn't change a thing about the login look, it's awesome. What I would propose is adding to the existing login greeter the 'hostname' of the machine it is running on.
What prompted this suggestion was the situation where I had an archlinux box connected vi xdmcp to my laptop on tty8. After a day or so of working on my local box, I switched back over to tty8 and the question immediately came to mind "Which Archlinux install is this?" because there was no way to immediately tell. (Don't get me wrong, I only have 2 Arch installs, so the answer wasn't critical) But the point to be made, and the basis for this suggestion, is that it would be nice to have the host information available.
Just a small addition to the dialog, after or under the Archlinux logo, that says something like "on: host.domain.com". That way, you know at a glance who you are dealing with.
Obviously, this is just a minimal enhancement, but the path to perfection is taken one step at a time.
Anybody adverse to something like this?
-- --------------------------------- Dan Vrátil progdan@progdansoft.com ICQ 249163429 Jabber progdan@jabber.cz Tel. +420 732 326 870
Even easier - you can configure this in the kde control center. System Administration -> Login Manager. Mine has the greeting set to "%r (%h)". According to the help text, the following are the available macros: GreetString The headline in the greeter. An empty greeting means none at all. The following character pairs are replaced by their value: %d name of the current display %h local host name, possibly with the domain name %n local node name, most probably the host name without the domain name %s operating system %r operating system version %m machine (hardware) type %% a single % The default is “Welcome to %s at %n”. HTH, DR Dan Vratil wrote:
On Thursday 30 April 2009 18:37:41 David C. Rankin wrote:
Hi, you can modify the KDM theme configuration to display the hostname. The themes are in /usr/share/apps/kdm/themes so just find the one you use and edit kdm.xml. You can now add some code to display the hostname, like:
<item type="label"> <pos x="50%" y="50%" anchor="e"/> <text>%h</text> </item>
Of course you want to put it somehere into the (sometimes quite complicated) hierarchy of <item>s to place it exacatly where you want it to be.
Dan
Listmates,
I though I would run this idea by the list and see if there was any aversion to the idea of adding hostname information to the xorg/kdm login display.
I wouldn't change a thing about the login look, it's awesome. What I would propose is adding to the existing login greeter the 'hostname' of the machine it is running on.
What prompted this suggestion was the situation where I had an archlinux box connected vi xdmcp to my laptop on tty8. After a day or so of working on my local box, I switched back over to tty8 and the question immediately came to mind "Which Archlinux install is this?" because there was no way to immediately tell. (Don't get me wrong, I only have 2 Arch installs, so the answer wasn't critical) But the point to be made, and the basis for this suggestion, is that it would be nice to have the host information available.
Just a small addition to the dialog, after or under the Archlinux logo, that says something like "on: host.domain.com". That way, you know at a glance who you are dealing with.
Obviously, this is just a minimal enhancement, but the path to perfection is taken one step at a time.
Anybody adverse to something like this?
David Rosenstrauch wrote:
Even easier - you can configure this in the kde control center. System Administration -> Login Manager. Mine has the greeting set to "%r (%h)". According to the help text, the following are the available macros:
GreetString The headline in the greeter. An empty greeting means none at all. The following character pairs are replaced by their value: %d name of the current display %h local host name, possibly with the domain name %n local node name, most probably the host name without the domain name %s operating system %r operating system version %m machine (hardware) type %% a single %
The default is “Welcome to %s at %n”.
HTH,
DR
Dan Vratil wrote:
On Thursday 30 April 2009 18:37:41 David C. Rankin wrote:
Hi, you can modify the KDM theme configuration to display the hostname. The themes are in /usr/share/apps/kdm/themes so just find the one you use and edit kdm.xml. You can now add some code to display the hostname, like:
<item type="label"> <pos x="50%" y="50%" anchor="e"/> <text>%h</text> </item>
Of course you want to put it somehere into the (sometimes quite complicated) hierarchy of <item>s to place it exacatly where you want it to be.
Dan
Listmates,
I though I would run this idea by the list and see if there was any aversion to the idea of adding hostname information to the xorg/kdm login display.
I wouldn't change a thing about the login look, it's awesome. What I would propose is adding to the existing login greeter the 'hostname' of the machine it is running on.
What prompted this suggestion was the situation where I had an archlinux box connected vi xdmcp to my laptop on tty8. After a day or so of working on my local box, I switched back over to tty8 and the question immediately came to mind "Which Archlinux install is this?" because there was no way to immediately tell. (Don't get me wrong, I only have 2 Arch installs, so the answer wasn't critical) But the point to be made, and the basis for this suggestion, is that it would be nice to have the host information available.
Just a small addition to the dialog, after or under the Archlinux logo, that says something like "on: host.domain.com". That way, you know at a glance who you are dealing with.
Obviously, this is just a minimal enhancement, but the path to perfection is taken one step at a time.
Anybody adverse to something like this?
Should have known you guys would have already figured this out. Thanks! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
I though I would run this idea by the list and see if there was any aversion to the idea of adding hostname information to the xorg/kdm login display.
I wouldn't change a thing about the login look, it's awesome. What I would propose is adding to the existing login greeter the 'hostname' of the machine it is running on.
What prompted this suggestion was the situation where I had an archlinux box connected vi xdmcp to my laptop on tty8. After a day or so of working on my local box, I switched back over to tty8 and the question immediately came to mind "Which Archlinux install is this?" because there was no way to immediately tell. (Don't get me wrong, I only have 2 Arch installs, so the answer wasn't critical) But the point to be made, and the basis for this suggestion, is that it would be nice to have the host information available.
Just a small addition to the dialog, after or under the Archlinux logo, that says something like "on: host.domain.com". That way, you know at a glance who you are dealing with.
Obviously, this is just a minimal enhancement, but the path to perfection is taken one step at a time.
Anybody adverse to something like this?
Can it also be made the default in GDM? /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe
participants (4)
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Dan Vratil
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David C. Rankin
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David Rosenstrauch
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Magnus Therning