I had the same problem with Hardy. Changing the access right for .dmrc alone doesn't changed anything, but this sequence solved this problem (my user name is 'pit'): cd /home chmod 744 pit cd /home/pit chmod 644 .dmrc
-- User's $HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs