From: J G Miller on
On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:40:58 +0200, Alessandro Selli wrote:

> Il 08/08/2010 16:37, J G Miller ha scritto:
>> On Saturday, August 7th, 2010 at 21:17:39h -0700, Todd asked:
>>>
>>> Under Fedora Core 12, I have lost gdmsetup, so I have to do it
>>> manually.
>>
>>
>> This configuration will be in the file /etc/gdm/gdm.conf or for newer
>> versions (2.30 onwards) of gdm in /etc/gdm/custom.conf
>
> Not so:
>
> http://projects.gnome.org/gdm/docs/2.18/configuration.html System
> configuration is stored in <share>/gdm/defaults.conf
>
> http://projects.gnome.org/gdm/docs/2.20/configuration.html GDM uses two
> configuration files: the GDM System Defaults Configuration File
> (<share>/gdm/defaults.conf) and the GDM Custom Configuration File
> (<etc>/gdm/custom.conf).

Settings in /etc/gdm override those in <share>/gdm so the user should
be making changing to the file in /etc/gdm not the <share> version,
hence why I pointed to /etc/gdm in my answer.