[ale] no user/password fields on gnome logins screen

[Jim Kinney]

That is very broken. Are you running to visual assist tools gok or orca?
Not a real solution but a hack script in rc.local that does a 10 second
sleep then a gdm-force-restart would make a work around.
On Jul 12, 2011 10:39 AM, "John Heim" <john at johnheim.net> wrote:
> Anybody have any idea why the gnome login screen would come up without the

> boxes to enter your user ID and password? Obviously, that makes it kind of

> difficult to log in. I can switch to a text console and restart gdm3 and
> then I get a normal login window. But if I reboot, it goes back to not
> having places to type in your user ID and password. Alternately, anybody
> know of how you can restart gdm3 at the login window? You used to be able
to
> do that by pressing control+alt+backspace but it doesn't work anymore.
>
> I see in the syslog error messages from gtk that say that something is
> creating widgets "not in a window". I presume that's the problem and that
> the user ID and password widgets are being created outside a window (or
> something). But I can't figure out why it would do that or why restarting
> gdm3 would fix the problem.
>
> PS: I'm blind but sighted people have told me that the screen resolution
> looks the same before and after restarting gdm3. Everything looks the same

> (according to them) except that after restarting gdm3, the login window
> contains places to put your ID and password.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/attachments/20110712/38b12e25/attachment.html