Bug 843754

Summary:	Displaying banner messages on the login screen (gdm) broken.
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Vitezslav Humpa <vhumpa>
Component:	gnome-shell	Assignee:	Florian Müllner <fmuellner>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version:	7.0
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Last Closed:	2012-10-16 19:24:41 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Vitezslav Humpa 2012-07-27 09:25:24 UTC

Description of problem:

Using the dconf settings, you can set up a banner to display in the login screen using. With the currently present packages the login screen however doesn't show the banner.

It's been reported that this might be fixed in upstream now already. Please consider this bug report for tracking.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-shell-3.4.1-5.el7.x86_64
gdm-3.4.1-3.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a file /etc/dconf/db/gdm.d/99-site-defaults with this content:

[org/gnome/login-screen/banner-message-enable]
active=true

[org/gnome/login-screen]
banner-message-text='Hello!'

2. Run 'dconf update' under root
3. Restart the GDM session
  
Actual results:
No banner displayed on the login screen

Expected results:
Banner displays the text present under the banner-message-text dconf key.

Comment 1 Florian Müllner 2012-10-16 19:24:41 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. Create a file /etc/dconf/db/gdm.d/99-site-defaults with this content:
> 
> [org/gnome/login-screen/banner-message-enable]
> active=true

This is wrong, it should be

[org/gnome/login-screen]
banner-message-enable=true

With this change, the banner should display correctly (I have only tested on 3.6.1 though)