Using gdm instead of lightdm the change user indicator does not show up

[franco_bez]

On my 64bit oneiric machine, recently upgraded from natty, I try to use gdm instead of lightdm.
It's working, but I noticed that after login there is no "change user indicator" (the one with the user name) in the unity top-panel , just the clock and then the logout/systemsettings indicator.

When unity is launched from lightdm the indicator shows up, just when launched from gdm it's gone.

On my machine this is 100% reproductible.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: indicator-session 0.3.7-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 27 23:16:26 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110330)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: indicator-session
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-07 (19 days ago)

[franco_bez (franco-bez)]

Am I really the only one affected by this bug ?

In order to illustrate the issue I attached two screenshots
one running unity from gdm,
the other from lightdm

[franco_bez (franco-bez)]

I just did a plain new installation on one of my systems.

The bug is still 100% reproductible.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, you are probably not the only one but most people use the default dm (lightdm) so don't get the issue

[Olli Ries (ories)]

please reopen if problem still exists in 12.04

[franco_bez (franco-bez)]

This bug seems to be fixed in 12.04.
I just tested with 12.04 beta1.

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

franco, thanks for the response!

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because the bug has been fixed in the latest development version of Ubuntu - Precise Pangolin.

If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, please follow the instructions for "How to request new packages" at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports#Requesting_New_Backports