Re: only GDM3 greeter screen works
On 2013-09-13, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. dprov...@alumni.ucalgary.ca wrote: Apparently I have mucked something up. The GDM3 greeter screen (i.e. the screen that displays your name, and solicits the password) functions, but it will not sign me on. I can sign on via a terminal session, so it isn't a userid or password problem. Something similar happened to me many a moon ago, and it was due to the fact that I had inadvertently turned on Allow to control the pointer using the keyboard in System - Preferences - Keyboard - Mouse Keys (Gnome) I turned off what I'd accidentally turned on (you may be wondering how I fortuitously turned on such a functionality, buried as it is deep in a configuration menu, but I managed to do it with a series of not very felicitous keyboard combinations while editing a file or playing Bzflag or something.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrnl38el4.2ak.cu...@einstein.electron.org
Re: only GDM3 greeter screen works
On 2013-09-14, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: I can sign on via a terminal session, so it isn't a userid or password problem. Something similar happened to me many a moon ago, and it was due to the fact that I had inadvertently turned on Allow to control the pointer using the keyboard in System - Preferences - Keyboard - Mouse Keys (Gnome) I should have added that to explore this and other possibilities you'd log on to the terminal, get root, run 'service gdm3 stop', then log out of root and run 'startx' as a regular user, thus entering gnome and bypassing the greeter entirely. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrnl38hhn.2ei.cu...@einstein.electron.org
Re: only GDM3 greeter screen works
On Friday 13 September 2013 06:38 AM, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote: Hello, Apparently I have mucked something up. The GDM3 greeter screen (i.e. the screen that displays your name, and solicits the password) functions, but it will not sign me on. I can sign on via a terminal session, so it isn't a userid or password problem. I've run dpkg-reconfigure gdm3, but that didn't help. I've run /etc/init.d/gdm3 restart, and that didn't help either. Any ideas? Dean reinstall gdm3? K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5232ad75.5040...@gmail.com
only GDM3 greeter screen works
Hello, Apparently I have mucked something up. The GDM3 greeter screen (i.e. the screen that displays your name, and solicits the password) functions, but it will not sign me on. I can sign on via a terminal session, so it isn't a userid or password problem. I've run dpkg-reconfigure gdm3, but that didn't help. I've run /etc/init.d/gdm3 restart, and that didn't help either. Any ideas? Dean -- Dean Provins, P. Geoph. dprov...@alumni.ucalgary.ca http://www.telusplanet.net/~provinsd public key 0x9643AE65 9B79 75FB 5C2B 22D0 6C8C 5A87 D579 9BE5 9643 AE65 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130913010841.ga5...@telusplanet.net
