On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 18:06 +0100, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 16:13 +0000, Marco Scannadinari wrote:
>> Sometimes, usually when updates are installed, after booting, I get a
>> gdm screen similar to this -
>>
http://lippolweblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/gdm.png. It uses the
>> same animations as the new black gdm, but it just has the plain white
>> layout as of the old gdm 2.x.
>> Has anyone experienced this? What is the cause?
>
> The "older" UI is shown when detection that your graphics card has the
> necessary OpenGL support fails. That includes a timeout.
Can it not, please? Seriously, what a terrible idea.
Perhaps the most profound feature of the gdm, discreet way of telling
you to switch over. ;)
poma