Re: only GDM3 greeter screen works
On 2013-09-13, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. <dprovins@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.)
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