Bug 472075

Summary: accounts without password cannot choose session manager
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mark Alford <alford>
Component: gdmAssignee: Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 19CC: bochecha, cschalle, rstrode, spacewar
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Description Mark Alford 2008-11-18 16:37:28 UTC
Description of problem:

gdm only offers its menu of available session managers after a username is chosen in the menu. The user can then choose a session manager before typing in the password. But for accounts without a password (eg an account on a single-user computer that is never connected to the internet, or a child's laptop, etc) the default session manager is immediately started when the username is selected, so it is impossible to select an alternate session manager.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdm 2.22.0

How reproducible:
completely

Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2008-11-18 17:50:58 UTC
hmm, I thought we fixed this but maybe not.

You can work around the issue by choosing "Other", typing your username, and then choosing your session manager.

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Comment 4 Mathieu Bridon 2009-09-13 18:30:24 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> hmm, I thought we fixed this but maybe not.

Hi Ray, this is still present in F11, are there any plans to fix it ?

I'm reopening it as it was closed by the BugZappers when F9 was EOL-ed, and your last comment leads to think that you might actually want to fix it at some point.

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Comment 6 Mathieu Bridon 2010-04-28 18:40:01 UTC
This is still an issue with gdm-2.28.2-3.fc12.x86_64

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Comment 8 Mark Alford 2010-11-07 15:58:04 UTC
This is still present in Fedora 13.

Ray Strode said "You can work around the issue by choosing 'Other', typing your username, and then choosing your session manager", but this does not work for me. You can select "Other" and type your username, but there is no session manager menu on the screen at that point. Your only option is to click "login" or hit Return, and you are then immediately logged in using your default session manager.

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Comment 19 Eric Smith 2013-08-21 20:50:18 UTC
Still (again?) an issue with Fedora 19.

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