Comment 29 for bug 553200

I can't reproduce this problem. I used the default Ubuntu GDM setup, and I also tried installing xubuntu-gdm-theme. I don't think the latter worked correctly, though because I get a boring purple background and a little terminal picture at the top of the login prompt. Hopefully the xubuntu theme isn't supposed to be quite so ugly...

I'll need to try with a fresh install, I guess, though I won't have time to do that any time soon.