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Mark Whidby <[log in to unmask]>
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Mark Whidby <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 16 Oct 2015 10:02:30 +0100
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On Thu, 2015-10-15 at 10:06 -0500, Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote:
> On 10/15/2015 07:57 AM, Mark Whidby wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-10-15 at 07:28 -0500, Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote:
> >> On 10/15/2015 06:27 AM, Steven Miano wrote:
> >>> Are you following this:
> >>>
> >>> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Desktop_Migration_and_Administration_Guide/customizing-login-screen.html
> >>>
> >>> ?
> >>>
> >>> The:
> >>>
> >>> #dconf update
> >>>
> >>> Is a crucial step.
> >> I think it was the "dconf update" step that we were missing. Haven't had
> >> to work in dconf much in our enviroment.  That's got the basic banner
> >> working nicely.  Now to tweak the formatting and we'll be good to go.
> > I don't suppose anybody has worked out how to make it a bit more legible
> > in terms of colour, instead of the default pale grey on dark grey setup?
> >
> > Under SL 7.0 the text came out in white and looked a lot better.
> >
> 
> I was thinking the same thing.  Either adjusting text color, or font, or 
> font size would be a nice tweak.  (Or all three?)
> 

I received this pointer from someone off-list:

On Fedora we edit the CSS that defines the login screen. The file is
"/usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-shell.css". Trial and error to find
where to change what you want.



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Mark Whidby
System Administrator/Operations
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