Description of problem: Users without a password have no way to select a session (of language and keyboard layout in the past). This is a big problem for passwordless guest accounts. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gdm-3.0.4-1.fc15.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install GNOME and at least one other desktop environment 2. set up a user without password in the accounts dialog 3. try to log in as that user Actual results: No chance to select another session after clicking on the user name in GDM. The user is logged in straight. No way to select the session before selecting the user either because the session dropdown is greyed out. Expected results: User should be able to select the session. There could be a slight delay after selecting the user or the session selection should be available before the user was selected Additional info: Given that you know the user name (and not the displayed name) you can select "other" as a workaround. You can then type the username and select the session before you hit return to login.
*** Bug 825525 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Just wanted to add that the work around in Christoph's additional info (selecting "Not listed?" and manually typing suername) does not work for me in Fedora 17 (as per my duplicate). While this does present a list of sessions, upon pressing "Sign In" the selected session is reverted to last session and is therefore unsuccessful.
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