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

[John Heim]

No, I'm not running orca or any other accessibility tool. I have my personal 
login configured to start orca after I log in. So I have to log in w/o 
sound. Which is a pain. And, in fact, the only reason I knew about the login 
problem was because a sighted person told me. I assumed I just couldn't 
type.

The gnome-orca and gnome-accessibility packages are installed. But I removed 
them and the problem didn't go away. I've already been working on this for 
days and have tried everything I can think of already.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] no user/password fields on gnome logins screen


> 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.
>>
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