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Palshife
February 19th, 2010, 08:30 AM
I set up my netbook to where /home is on a separate so I could try out other distros from time to time. After giving Fedora and Linux Mint a try and not finding them to my liking, I re-installed Ubuntu 9.10. Only now, when I get to the login screen, it doesn't show my user face.

I checked my UID to make sure it's less than 1000, and that was fine. I then tried adding a new user to see if that would show up, and it did. I checked my gconf settings to make sure disable_user_list was set to FALSE, and it was. I read a suggestion to delete .gnome2 and .gnome2_private, and that didn't fix the problem, either.

Installing one of the distros changed some setting or another, and I haven't a clue what. Is there anything else I should check or delete?

bluefrog
February 19th, 2010, 11:15 AM
your initial user has uid =< 1000?
in that case it is normal you don't see it. By design.

Hero of Time
February 19th, 2010, 01:02 PM
Correct, in the GDM settings, it is noted that users with an ID below 1000 are not shown in the user list. So make sure it is 1000 or higher.

Palshife
February 19th, 2010, 09:39 PM
Next time I should read the information I find more closely, huh.

Thank you, both of you. A usermod -u 1001 and everything's fixed.