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Re: Behaviour change in Xorg's xdm between 5.99.5 and 5.99.7



On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 06:34:41PM +0000, S.P.Zeidler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> paul%whooppee.com@localhost (Paul Goyette) writes:
> 
> >I just installed 5.99.7 (including Xorg) built from yesterday's sources, 
> >and noticed something a little odd:
> 
> >The xdm login widget displays ONLY the "Login:" field, until after an 
> >entry is made in that field and the Enter/Return key is pressed.  Only 
> >after pressing Enter is the "Password:" field displayed.  On my other 
> >5.99.5 systems buit from 2008-12-13 sources, both fields are displayed 
> >right from the beginning.
> 
> Try compiling xdm with USE_PAM=NO, it'll probably revert to the old
> behaviour.


Can this be changed in configuration, too?

        Geert




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