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Ubuntu 11.10 To Switch From GDM To LightDM

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 12, 2011 @06:20AM from the getcher-choosin'-action-on dept.

dkd903 writes "Earlier, during the Natty development cycle we reported that LightDM is being considered as a replacement for GDM. That did not happen for Ubuntu 11.04, but today it has been confirmed at the Ubuntu Developer Summit at Budapest that LightDM is finally replacing GDM in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric."

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Re:Why not SLiM? by grumbel · 2011-05-12 08:00 · Score: 5, Interesting

Not only that, the username field is also the only field in which you can type clear text, thus the only field where you can actually see when you have capslock on or loaded a wrong keymap. It always drives me nuts when I have to enter my password and can't even verify that the keys I am hitting are really the keys I think they are.