<p>That is very broken. Are you running to visual assist tools gok or orca?<br>
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.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 12, 2011 10:39 AM, "John Heim" <<a href="mailto:john@johnheim.net">john@johnheim.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> Anybody have any idea why the gnome login screen would come up without the <br>
> boxes to enter your user ID and password? Obviously, that makes it kind of <br>> difficult to log in. I can switch to a text console and restart gdm3 and <br>> then I get a normal login window. But if I reboot, it goes back to not <br>
> having places to type in your user ID and password. Alternately, anybody <br>> know of how you can restart gdm3 at the login window? You used to be able to <br>> do that by pressing control+alt+backspace but it doesn't work anymore.<br>
> <br>> I see in the syslog error messages from gtk that say that something is <br>> creating widgets "not in a window". I presume that's the problem and that <br>> the user ID and password widgets are being created outside a window (or <br>
> something). But I can't figure out why it would do that or why restarting <br>> gdm3 would fix the problem.<br>> <br>> PS: I'm blind but sighted people have told me that the screen resolution <br>> looks the same before and after restarting gdm3. Everything looks the same <br>
> (according to them) except that after restarting gdm3, the login window <br>> contains places to put your ID and password.<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Ale mailing list<br>
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