enigma1 wrote:hi Theeman
I thought your way of creating a GDM thing was just GREAT, because I have spent DAYS trying to create my own, making lots of mistakes, but learning a little bit along the way. I tried your script and immediately ran into trouble. As I understand it, the idea was to let you choose your own pictures to be included in the GDM? So I created a folder with a few pictures in. I also (for each picture) created both a BACKGROUND jpg and png, and a SCREENSHOT jpg and png. I created both png and jpg because I am not yet too sure just what the format of the pictures should be. I then left that folder open and in a terminal ran the script. This is the last few lines of the script copied and pasted from the terminal:
innerbackground.png
halt-prelight.png
halt-active.png
halt.png
GDM.xml
disconnect-prelight.png
disconnect-active.png
disconnect.png
chooser-prelight.png
chooser-active.png
chooser.png
cp: cannot stat `screenshot.png': No such file or directory
james@Polar-Ubuntu:~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts$ Res5
bash: Res5: command not found
james@Polar-Ubuntu:~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts$ #Create GDM Archive
james@Polar-Ubuntu:~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts$ tar czf $GDMNAME.tar.gz $GDMNAME/
james@Polar-Ubuntu:~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts$ #Clean up
james@Polar-Ubuntu:~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts$ rm -R $GDMNAME
james@Polar-Ubuntu:~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts$ exit 0
As you can see, it failed because of no 'screenshot.png. So my first question is.........how do I get it to actually see MY pictures instead of what it appears to download (a whole list of png's). My second question is......the whole idea of making a GDM easily like this (when and if I get it working) strikes me as such a GOOD idea that it would be much easier for dead-head newbies like me if it was an executable program instead of a series of commands to be copied into a terminal (or have I got that wrong also?) It also begs the question - why wasn't something like this built into Ubuntu? <g>
Any hints you can give would be much appreciated
Thanks
James
cd ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/
wget http://ubuntusoftware.info/scripts/MakeGDM
sudo chmod +x MakeGDM
robins80 wrote:I installed your GDMaker script, went to a directory that had an image in it, ran the script and the resulting login gave me an error. It could not find the file background.jpg (which isn't what I called the image file I wanted to use). Did I miss something? I'm using Mint 5, the Gnome version.
TheeMahn wrote:
But does it work?
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