On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 16:13 +0000, Marco Scannadinari wrote: >> Sometimes, usually when updates are installed, after booting, I get a >> gdm screen similar to this - >> http://lippolweblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/gdm.png. It uses the >> same animations as the new black gdm, but it just has the plain white >> layout as of the old gdm 2.x. >> Has anyone experienced this? What is the cause? > > The "older" UI is shown when detection that your graphics card has the > necessary OpenGL support fails. That includes a timeout. If your > machine is starting a lot of services at boot, and if your hard drives > are too busy loading stuff to run the test tool as quickly as they > should, this may happen. It likely won't be shown if you get a faster > hard disk. Clearly a bug though. I'm not sure the speed of the HDD makes much difference. I've got a SSD and on occasion I get it as well. I also occasionally get a fall back to the old style dialog when logged into the desktop. One minute I'll get the new one when I need to unlock a ssh key, the next the old one when I need to put in some network details and then back to the new one (not saying it's network, that's an example, can be any dialog) when it's running g-s fine. Tends to happen more when the machine has been up for longer. Peter -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
