f13 - gdm fails with no user list

[Genes MailLists]

  Fresh install f13 - fully updated.

  As per usual on laptop - i ran

 gconftool-2 --direct --config-source
xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --type bool --set
/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true


  So that gdm does not present user list to the world.

  Rebooted - gdm screen comes up - background is there - and lower bar
is there.

   The box where I would put username / password is a thin vertical line
1 pixel wide ...it is impossible to login to gdm


    reset to false and restart and its fine again.


  known bug or is there a new way to configure gdm now ?

  thanks.

 gene/

[M A Young]

On Mon, 31 May 2010, Genes MailLists wrote:

>  gconftool-2 --direct --config-source
>  xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --type bool --set
>  /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true
>
>
>   So that gdm does not present user list to the world.
>
>   Rebooted - gdm screen comes up - background is there - and lower bar
>  is there.
>
>    The box where I would put username / password is a thin vertical line
>  1 pixel wide ...it is impossible to login to gdm
>
>
>     reset to false and restart and its fine again.
>
>
>   known bug or is there a new way to configure gdm now ? 
It looks like bug 590456
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=590456

 	Michael Young

[Genes MailLists]

On 05/31/2010 07:40 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
>  On Mon, 31 May 2010 18:40:55 -0400
>  Genes MailLists wrote:
>  
> >   known bug or is there a new way to configure gdm now ?
>  
>  My favorite way to configure gdm is:
>  
>  cat > /etc/sysconfig/desktop
>  DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE
>  ^D
>  
>  Then you can edit /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc :-). 

 As an ex kde person who switched away during the infamous 4.0 thing ..
i understand ... :-)

 My signal to re-check is 1 month after linus switches back .. till then
... well .. I use Gnomama ... ;-)

[Tom Horsley]

On Mon, 31 May 2010 18:40:55 -0400
Genes MailLists wrote:

>    known bug or is there a new way to configure gdm now ? 
My favorite way to configure gdm is:

cat > /etc/sysconfig/desktop
DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE
^D

Then you can edit /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc :-).

[Frank Elsner]

On Mon, 31 May 2010 18:40:55 -0400 Genes MailLists wrote:
>  
>  
>    Fresh install f13 - fully updated.
>  
>    As per usual on laptop - i ran
>  
>   gconftool-2 --direct --config-source
>  xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --type bool --set
>  /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true
>  
>  
>    So that gdm does not present user list to the world.
>  
>    Rebooted - gdm screen comes up - background is there - and lower bar
>  is there.
>  
>     The box where I would put username / password is a thin vertical line
>  1 pixel wide ...it is impossible to login to gdm
>  
>  
>      reset to false and restart and its fine again.
>  
>  
>    known bug or is there a new way to configure gdm now ? 

Known to me, same here. Of cource I also switched to "display users".


--Frank Elsner

[Tom Horsley]

On Mon, 31 May 2010 20:03:52 -0400
Genes MailLists wrote:

>   My signal to re-check is 1 month after linus switches back .. till
> then
>  ... well .. I use Gnomama ... ;-) 
Using KDM doesn't force you to use kde, you can still login to
a gnome session, but you can also control things like the X server
startup options which GDM won't let you do.