I've been goofing around with my Gentoo Linux install from time to time, trying to prep myself for a potential[ly inevitable] move from Windows. But that's neither here nor there.


In GDM, I discovered how much I love seeing my own face when I go to log in, so I enabled face browsers on my login screen. However, in the spirit of customization, I eventually pimped my GDM out with some theme I downloaded. The only problem is that this does not enable a face browser at all.

To enable a face browser, you have to edit the theme's XML definition a little bit, but to get a face browser to appear on my theme (BlueSwirl), all I had to do was add this small snippet to the theme's definition:

<item type="list" id="userlist">

<pos anchor="w" x="-215" y="150" height="100" width="400" />

</item>

Simple, but there's not really much in the way of documentation on the matter.