Bug 177947

Summary:	gdm no longer supports \n escapes in the Welcome text
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks>
Component:	gdm	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Valdis Kletnieks 2006-01-16 19:08:56 UTC

Description of problem:
On previous versions of gdm, the following worked in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf:

Welcome=Welcome to %n\nAuthorized Users and Uses Only\n\n

to insert newlines to break up and space the text (needed if it's a multi-line
login banner).  As of gdm 2.13, the \n is no longer functional - and in fact, if
used, results in the rest (and *important* part) of the welcome banner being
lost.  It's simply truncated at the \n.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdm-2.13.0.4-3

How reproducible:
Set the above Welcome in /etc/X11/gdm/custom.conf.

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Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2007-03-06 19:36:50 UTC

Is this regression still present in rawhide?

Comment 2 Ray Strode [halfline] 2007-08-14 15:49:56 UTC

The information we've requested above is required in order
to review this problem report further and diagnose/fix the
issue if it is still present.  Since there haven't been any
updates to the report in quite a long time now after we've
requested additional information, we're assuming the problem
is either no longer present in our current OS release, or
that there is no longer any interest in tracking the problem.

Setting status to CANTFIX, however if you still
experience this problem after updating to our latest Fedora
Core release and are still interested in Red Hat tracking
the issue, and assisting in troubleshooting the problem,
please feel free to provide the information requested above,
and reopen the report.

Thank you in advance.

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Comment 3 Valdis Kletnieks 2007-08-14 18:54:27 UTC

OK, tested against latest Rawhide, and it is indeed fixed.  It took me a while
to figure out how to test it - Bug #252189 kept interfering (basically, themes
supplied by the gdm RPM support Welcome, themes from redhat-artwork don't).