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and subject line closing old gdm3 bugs
has caused the Debian Bug report #696672,
regarding gdm3: Greeter display appears twice...briefly the 1st time..then the
real display pops up
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696672: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696672
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: gdm3
Version: 3.4.1-5
Severity: normal
When the greeter appears the first time...it seems to be only part of the
display...it's on the screen for less than a second..than after a
brief delay, the "real" greeter display pops up.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii accountsservice 0.6.21-7
ii adduser 3.113+nmu3
ii aterm [x-terminal-emulator] 1.0.1-8
ii dconf-gsettings-backend 0.12.1-3
ii dconf-tools 0.12.1-3
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.48
ii dpkg 1.16.9
ii fluxbox [x-window-manager] 1.3.2-4
ii gir1.2-freedesktop 1.32.1-1
ii gir1.2-glib-2.0 1.32.1-1
ii gnome-session-bin 3.4.2.1-3
ii gnome-session-fallback [x-session-manager] 3.4.2.1-3
ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.4.2+git20121218.7c1322-1
ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator] 3.4.1.1-2
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.4.2-3
ii icewm [x-window-manager] 1.3.7-4
ii icewm-experimental [x-window-manager] 1.3.7-4
ii icewm-lite [x-window-manager] 1.3.7-4
ii jwm [x-window-manager] 2.1.0+svn579-2
ii libaccountsservice0 0.6.21-7
ii libatk1.0-0 2.4.0-2
ii libattr1 1:2.4.46-8
ii libaudit0 1:1.7.18-1.1
ii libc6 2.13-37
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.12.2-2
ii libcairo2 1.12.2-2
ii libcanberra-gtk3-0 0.28-6
ii libcanberra0 0.28-6
ii libdbus-1-3 1.6.8-1
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.100-1
ii libfontconfig1 2.9.0-7.1
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.1-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.33.12+really2.32.4-3
ii libglib2.0-bin 2.33.12+really2.32.4-3
ii libgtk-3-0 3.4.2-4
ii libpam-modules 1.1.3-7.1
ii libpam-runtime 1.1.3-7.1
ii libpam0g 1.1.3-7.1
ii libpango1.0-0 1.30.0-1
ii librsvg2-common 2.36.1-1
ii libselinux1 2.1.9-5
ii libupower-glib1 0.9.17-1
ii libwrap0 7.6.q-24
ii libx11-6 2:1.5.0-1
ii libxau6 1:1.0.7-1
ii libxdmcp6 1:1.1.1-1
ii libxklavier16 5.2.1-1
ii libxrandr2 2:1.3.2-2
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian9
ii lxterminal [x-terminal-emulator] 0.1.11-4
ii metacity [x-window-manager] 1:2.34.3-4
ii openbox [x-window-manager] 3.5.0-6
ii policykit-1-gnome 0.105-2
ii rxvt-unicode-lite [x-terminal-emulator] 9.15-2
ii upower 0.9.17-1
ii x11-common 1:7.7+1
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7~3
ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 278-4
Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
pn at-spi2-core <none>
ii desktop-base 7.0.3
ii gnome-icon-theme 3.4.0-2
ii gnome-icon-theme-symbolic 3.4.0-2
ii x11-xkb-utils 7.7~1
ii xserver-xephyr 2:1.12.4-4
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.7+1
ii zenity 3.4.0-2
Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
pn gnome-orca <none>
pn gnome-shell <none>
pn gok <none>
ii libpam-gnome-keyring 3.4.1-5
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/gdm3/daemon.conf changed:
[daemon]
TimedLoginEnable = true
TimedLogin = frank
TimedLoginDelay = 60
[security]
[xdmcp]
[greeter]
[chooser]
[debug]
-- debconf information:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm3
gdm3/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm3
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
There have been many changes to Debian since this bug was originally
reported. If you are still experiencing this issue with Debian 13 (or
with Debian 12 or Testing or Unstable), please report a new bug.
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
--- End Message ---
