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and subject line Re: gdm3: gdmsetup should allow greeter configuration
has caused the Debian Bug report #759786,
regarding gdm3: multiple displays handled incorrectly (used to work)
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759786: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=759786
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Package: gdm3
Version: 3.12.2-2.1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Booted my laptop with external display attached
* What was the outcome of this action?
Internal display turned off, no login screen on secondary display
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Preferably login screen mirrored on all displays, at least leave built in
display turned on.
If I boot the system with the external display disconnected then connect it
after the login screen turns on it works 'till I log off.
Attempts to change the display layout often leave me with no workable display.
This all used to work perfectly.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii accountsservice 0.6.37-3
ii adduser 3.113+nmu3
ii dconf-cli 0.20.0-2
ii dconf-gsettings-backend 0.20.0-2
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.53
ii gir1.2-gdm3 3.12.2-2.1
ii gnome-session [x-session-manager] 3.12.1-3
ii gnome-session-bin 3.12.1-3
ii gnome-session-flashback [x-session-manager] 3.8.1-1
ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.12.2-1+b1
ii gnome-shell 3.12.2-3
ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator] 3.12.3-2
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.12.2-1
ii libaccountsservice0 0.6.37-3
ii libatk1.0-0 2.12.0-1
ii libaudit1 1:2.3.7-1
ii libc6 2.19-10
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.12.16-3
ii libcairo2 1.12.16-3
ii libcanberra-gtk3-0 0.30-2
ii libcanberra0 0.30-2
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.30.7-1
ii libgdm1 3.12.2-2.1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.40.0-5
ii libglib2.0-bin 2.40.0-5
ii libgtk-3-0 3.12.2-3+b1
ii libpam-modules 1.1.8-3.1
ii libpam-runtime 1.1.8-3.1
ii libpam-systemd 208-8
ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.6-1
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.36.6-1
ii librsvg2-common 2.40.3-1
ii libselinux1 2.3-1
ii libsystemd-daemon0 208-8
ii libsystemd-id128-0 208-8
ii libsystemd-journal0 208-8
ii libsystemd-login0 208-8
ii libwrap0 7.6.q-25
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-3
ii libxau6 1:1.0.8-1
ii libxdmcp6 1:1.1.1-1
ii libxrandr2 2:1.4.2-1
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13
ii metacity [x-window-manager] 1:3.12.0-2
ii policykit-1 0.105-6.1
ii ucf 3.0030
ii x11-common 1:7.7+7
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7+3
ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 308-1
Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii at-spi2-core 2.12.0-2
ii desktop-base 7.0.3
ii gnome-icon-theme 3.12.0-1
ii gnome-icon-theme-symbolic 3.12.0-1
ii x11-xkb-utils 7.7+1
ii xserver-xephyr 2:1.16.0-1
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.7+7
ii zenity 3.12.1-1.1
Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
ii gnome-orca 3.12.2-1
ii libpam-gnome-keyring 3.12.2-1
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/gdm3/greeter.gsettings [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
u'/etc/gdm3/greeter.gsettings'
-- debconf information:
gdm3/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm3
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm3
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--- Begin Message ---
gdmsetup no longer exists so I'm closing this particular bug. See
https://bugs.debian.org/825977 which is a request for the GNOME
Settings app to allow configuring login screen settings.
Thanks,
Jeremy Bícha
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