Re: Fedora 13 - single pixel for GUI login screen so unable to login to Gnome/Xfce

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On 06/24/2010 11:39 AM, Andrew Gray wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 11:21 -0400, Roger K. Wells wrote:
>    
>> On 06/24/2010 09:25 AM, Edmon Begoli wrote:
>>      
>>> I upgraded from Fedora 12 to Fedora 13 and now, when my computer boots,
>>> I get a login screen but the actual login box with user accounts is a
>>> one pixel wide.
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> This happened to me after installing the "AccountsDialog" user
>> management facility that was described as wonderful in a recent
>> e-week article.  To do anything I logged in via ssh.  Once back
>> in I uninstalled AcountsDialog (I think there was one dependency
>> that I uninstalled as well) and installed the KDE login manager.
>> Even after uninstalling "AccoountsDialog" the problem remained.
>> KDE log in works and I now log in from there selecting the GNOME session
>> option as default.  At least I am back in business.
>>
>>      
>>> I tried to log in from the other machine, and I found my user accounts
>>> intact but the
>>> graphical login is squeezed-unusable.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any suggestions for this problem?
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> EB
>>>
>>>        
>>
>> -- 
>> Roger Wells, P.E.
>> SAIC
>> 221 Third St
>> Newport, RI 02840
>> 401-847-4210 (voice)
>> 401-849-1585 (fax)
>> roger.k.wells@xxxxxxxx
>>
>>      
> I had this problem upgrading from F12 to F13 using Gnome
>
> I found it was due to me hiding logon names, I was using:-
>
>    
I did the same thing at the time I installed "AccountsDialog".
I'll bet that's the problem not "AccountsDialog" itself.
(Although we should be able to not show login names)
thanks for the observation.
> Don't show login names assuming your using GDM:-
>
> gconftool-2 --direct --config-source
> xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --type bool
> --set /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true
>
> re running the above setting it to "false" solved the logon
> albeit showing the users names.
>
> --Andrew Gray
>
>    


-- 
Roger Wells, P.E.
SAIC
221 Third St
Newport, RI 02840
401-847-4210 (voice)
401-849-1585 (fax)
roger.k.wells@xxxxxxxx

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