Hi All, <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Charlie Kravetz <<a href="mailto:cjk@teamcharliesangels.com">cjk@teamcharliesangels.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:14:56 +0100 Eric Druid <<a href="mailto:eric.druid%2Bxubuntu@gmail.com">eric.druid+xubuntu@gmail.com</a>> 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 > </div>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. </blockquote></div> Charlie's option seems to be the best one for now, but a complaint similar to this one was brought up during the gdm-setup session at last week's Ubuntu Developer Summit. This feature is targeted for the April, 2010, release of Ubuntu. If it is included in Ubuntu, it would very likely be present in Xubuntu as well. Of course, we will need to see how things play out, but you are not the only one with this issue. It affects other companies and groups that have large deployments of Ubuntu. Thanks for bringing this to our attention, Jim