bug on fedora 17: login screen doesn't show up

[Fajrian Yunus]

oh yeah. i use 2 monitors indeed. let me try :D

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:51 PM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 22:24 +0800, Fajrian Yunus wrote:
> > hi all,
> >
> > asking for help. whenever i start my computer, by the time i
> > (supposedly) reach the login screen, i'm only shown the background
> > image, WITHOUT the login box. i can see the background image
> > (fireworks image), i can see my mouse cursor, and i can move my mouse
> > around. but the login box is nowhere to be found. HOWEVER, if i make
> > my computer sleep, then turn it on again, immediately the login box
> > shows up and i can login without problem. i reinstalled my fedora 17,
> > it's still like this. interestingly, when i install my fedora 17 as
> > virtual machine (i use kvm), the problem doesn't show up at all.
> >
> > any help is appreciated.
> >
> > thank you :D
>
>
> That kind of sounds like your computer is starting up believing that
> there are two monitors attached (and that login should be happening on
> the *other* one), but sleep and wake properly resets the detection.
>
> I could be completely wrong, of course, but seeing the login background
> without the prompt is what happens to me when I boot my laptop attached
> to the monitor but forget to have the monitor tuned to the right
> input :)
>
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