New gdm configuration brings accessibility applets to Gnome Panel's notification area.

[heartsmagic]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

I am using Ubuntu 9.10. It is updated and here is my gnome-control-center release:
ii gnome-control-center 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu1

I don't konow if there is any other way to configure GDM on Karmic. I used that method:

gksudo -u gdm dbus-launch gnome-appearance-properties

Now, if you do that you can configure GDM but this brings some accesssibilty applets to notification area on next login.

[Harry (harry33)]

Heartsmagic,
yes it does, but you can easily get rid of them by selecting from the menu:
System -> Preferences -> Keyboard -> Accessibility
and by unticking the "Accessibility features can be toggled with keyboard shortcuts"
and rebooting.

[heartsmagic (heartsmagic)]

Oh, Harry thank you so much. Now, my panel is cleaner :) But I think this problem still remains as a bug :)
By the way there should be some other ways to configure GDM, but I know this issue isn't the topic of this bug. Maybe somebody already have suggested that on Brainstorm.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[heartsmagic (heartsmagic)]

Yes this is reproducible.

Necessary steps are,
Give the command:
gksudo -u gdm dbus-launch gnome-appearance-properties
and configure GDM.

This checks the "Accessibility features can be toggled with keyboard shortcuts" option every time in System -> Preferences -> Keyboard -> Accessibility.

If you can't see the accesibilty applets in the panel, just log out and re-login.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

not confirming the issue there, what do you change in the capplet?

[heartsmagic (heartsmagic)]

Just bakcground picture. But now, whenever i open the configuration utilty the problem occures again. No change at all, just opening the configuration utily is enough for that. By the way i am coming from an beta release, not RC.

[Andrei Vacariu (avacariu)]

I can confirm this. Happened to me too. If I clicked the icon in the Notification Area and checked any of the options, my overall GDM theme would change to either Redmond or Raleigh. I forgot which one it is exactly. It happened to me yesterday. I have 9.10 with all updates installed. I had to logout and log back in to bring the theme back to normal. The change that I made to the GDM Login Screen was the controls.

(What I mean by saying GDM is the "Controls" you change when customizing a theme.)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That configuration dialog is deprecated in GNOME3 and Oneiric so closing the bug, feel free to open new bugs about other issues you might find though