Hi,

I'm working to deploy SL7 workstations in the Govt arena.  Policy dictates a legal banner be displayed (e.g. dconf/gsettings org.gnome.login-screen / banner-message-text).  I'm having serious trouble displaying the banner in a readable format on a 24" panel display.  I'm hoping someone here might have some advice.

Here's some background...When designing the deployment, I was using a VirtualBox vm as my lab, I use a PXEboot/kickstart template to manage the provisioning and make it repeatable, and use puppet for configuration management.  After manually installing the guest additions, and applying the dconf settings (using puppet for this), the banner looks great inside the guest.  I can scale the screen and the banner appears nicely above the username field.  The message box even has a nice scroll bar to allow the user to read the whole message before login.  Depending on the window size, the message may also appear in a column to the left of the username field.

Transfer the kickstart and puppet driven config over to real desktops with 24" screens and the banner message displays in a column from top to bottom, centered on the screen and overlays the username field...  No scroll bars.  It's pretty darn ugly.  I've been scouring the Gnome lists and docs to try and find something relevant with no lock.  Is there anyway I can control where/how this message appears on the display?

Thanks for any thoughts!

Kindly,
Sean

P.S. If it would be helpful, I can provide a screenshot of the VM, but I don't think I can screenshot the real desktop screen.