[arch-general] Xorg/kdm login screen addition

[David Rosenstrauch]

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?
>