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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ICQ 249163429 Jabber progdan@xxxxxxxxx Tel. +420 732 326 870
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