Why do I sometimes get a gdm similar to gnome 2's?

[Adam Jackson]

On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 18:06 +0100, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 16:13 +0000, Marco Scannadinari wrote:
> > Sometimes, usually when updates are installed, after booting, I get a
> > gdm screen similar to this -
> > http://lippolweblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/gdm.png. It uses the
> > same animations as the new black gdm, but it just has the plain white
> > layout as of the old gdm 2.x.
> > Has anyone experienced this? What is the cause?
> 
> The "older" UI is shown when detection that your graphics card has the
> necessary OpenGL support fails.  That includes a timeout.

Can it not, please?  Seriously, what a terrible idea.

- ajax
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