Fedora 13 - single pixel for GUI login screen so unable to login to Gnome/Xfce

[Edmon Begoli]

I found a "bandaid" fix for my problem, so I want to share.

sudo vi /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/%gconf-tree.xml

Find line:

<entry name="disable_user_list" mtime="1277236514"
schema="/schemas/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list"
type="bool" value="true"/>

and change "true" value to "false" like in the example below:

<entry name="disable_user_list" mtime="1277236514"
schema="/schemas/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list"
type="bool" value="false"/>

Edmon

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Edmon Begoli <ebegoli at gmail.com> wrote:
> I see that this has been reported as a bug.
>
> How do I enable user login list?
>
> I get following error when I try to execute:
>
> Failed to access configuration source(s): Failed to contact
> configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable
> TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a
> system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information.
> (Details -  1: Not running within active session)
>
>
> when I try to execute:
>
> sudo /usr/bin/gconftool-2 --set --type bool --config-source
> xml:merged:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults
> /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list false
>
> Is there an easy way to change this "disable_user_list" setting from
> the command line?
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Edmon Begoli <ebegoli at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I upgraded from Fedora 12 to Fedora 13 and now, when my computer boots,
>> I get a login screen but the actual login box with user accounts is a
>> one pixel wide.
>>
>> I tried to log in from the other machine, and I found my user accounts
>> intact but the
>> graphical login is squeezed-unusable.
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions for this problem?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> EB
>>
>