Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 144565
gdmconfig cannot be run from menu
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:57 EST
gdm-2.6.0.5-6 redhat-menus-3.7.1-1.fc3 1.) Run gdmconfig by selecting Applications -> System Settings -> Login Screen. 2.) Get an error message: You must be the superuser (root) to configure GDM. Most or all of the other entries in the System Settings menu also require root authentication, but they pop up a dialog box to obtain it. Without the dialog box, it is not really possible to run gdmconfig from the graphical menus, so it should be employed.
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This has been fixed as of Fedora 7, though the menu path has changed to "System" -> "Administration" -> "Login Screen".