[xubuntu-users] confing GDM

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:14:56 +0100
Eric Druid <eric.druid+xubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I have a system with 500+ users on it. The current GDM displays them
> all in a looooooooooong list by default and all the configuring
> possibilities from 9.04 seems to have disappeared. How do I get back
> to the old behavior where you type you're username instead of choosing
> it?
> 
> The users on the system are the members of a club and are all actual
> people, not users for daemons or other whatnot.
> 
> /Eric Druid
> 

Sorry to have to tell you, the new GDM behavior is hard coded in. There
will be some changes made to it, but I do not know if this will be one
of them. When GDM was re-written, it was written for the gnome desktop
environment exclusively. Some changes were made to allow Xubuntu to
boot using it. 

However, you can type any user name, even though there is no selection
space to type in. When the GDM screen appears, just start typing the
user name. It will go to the user directly, and allow you to enter the
password as usual.


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Charlie Kravetz 
Xubuntu Quality Assurance Lead
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