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

[Jim Kinney]

I think that Xorg -configure will not put the xorg.conf file in the proper
location. I've always had to manually move it to /etc/X11 when I created it
manually. It seemed to drop it in root's home directory.

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:52 PM, John Heim <john at johnheim.net> wrote:

> There is no /etc/X11/xorg.conf file on the machine. Although, 'man
> xorg.conf' says that X looks for an xorg.conf file in about 100 different
> locations under about 100 different names. And I haven't checked them all.
> I guess I'll have to do that.
>
> Anyway, I created an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file according to that page and it
> didn't work. I found lots of messages out there about that technique not
> working. What does work is to run 'setxkbmap -optionn
> terminate:cntrl_alt_bksp'. So then I get the hotkey for killing X. But I
> still have the original problem of not having a proper login window.
>
> I also tried generating an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file by running
> 'Xorg -configure' but that didn't help either.
>
> Well, another thing is that I left something out of my original description
> of the problem. I am installing linux via FAI (Fully Automated Install). So
> I have about 20 machines with this problem right now.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles Shapiro" <hooterpincher at gmail.com>
> To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 9:53 AM
> Subject: Re: [ale] no user/password fields on gnome logins screen
>
>
> I can't necessarily help you on your gdm3 login fields trouble, but
> ctrl-alt-backspace is probably disabled in your
> X config file ( /etc/xorg.conf I think ).  You can set "dontzap" to
> false I believe to re-enable it, as detailed here (
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XorgCtrlAltBackspace ).  I've done this on my
> personal box without ill effect. I have no experience with gdm or
> gdm3, since I login exclusively in text mode and then explicitly start
> X from the command line. Call it an idiosyncracy from my years of
> using a green screen.
>
> -- CHS
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:37 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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