Bug#648093: gnome: My name is on the Desktop

[Gergely Nagy]

Thorsten Haude <yooden at gmx.net> writes:

>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
>      Looked for a settings dialog, found nothing.
>
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
>
>      I don't want my name to be displayed on my desktop, and I want the person who thought it would be a good idea to display my name on the desktop to be banned for life from making any decisions about user interfaces.
>

For what it's worth, I spent ~10 minutes creating an extension that
replaces the username in the status menu with a static string: "System".

It's available from github[1], installation instructions are included.

 [1]: https://github.com/algernon/gnome-shell-extension-status-menu-replacer

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