gdm welcome

[pajordan]

i want to display a welcome message shown in the gdm greeter that is more than one line in length (it's a warning paragraph). or have it displayed at the login screen, or after logging in. in searching online, i've seen suggestions to modify gdm.conf and use either Welcome= or InfoMsgFile.
if i use Welcome=, i can only seem to get it to display as one long line
if i insert a line for InfoMsgFile, this seems to have no effect (perhaps the version of gdm i'm using does not support InfoMsgFile; there was no entry for it in gdm.conf; i don't know how to check the version)

any suggestions?

[GNU-Fan]

Hello,

I run Debian Etch and on GNOME I went to the Desktop/Administration/LoginWindow menu.
I had to type the administrator's password to pass.

There I activated the custom welcome message and wrote into the edit field:

This is line1\nThis is line2\n This is line3\n This is line4

The login window gave me the text in four lines as expected.

I used the theme with the yellow flower.

[pajordan]

Thanks for the reply but that didn't work for me - i either don't have that option or i cannot locate it. i was able to access the gdm setup, but it looks to be a gui for the same things you can do by editing the gdm.conf manually.
in the gdm setup, the welcome field is only one line also - any line break type characters (<CR>, <ctrl>+v+enter, etc.) show up as plain text. this page has information about the gdm.conf file - http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/do...iguration.html
i think the welcome string will not work for me. any other suggestions? it sounds like InfoMsgFile is what i want to use, but it's not working.