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

[Jim Kinney]

Can you post the X log file? Also, what distro are you running?

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:55 PM, John Heim <john at johnheim.net> wrote:

> 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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