[arch-general] Xorg/kdm login screen addition

[Dan Vratil]

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?

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