Comment 13 for bug 408417

I am suffering from this bug as well. I think it is braindead to start using this new gdm version. Some very useful features were removed without providing an alternative! Apart from not being able to use xdmcp anymore (which I used to do a lot, using gdmflexiserver, which is now as good as useless), it also gives me this stupid chooser without possibility to go back to a normal login screen. I do not want a chooser, i want a plain login! And I do not want to use kdm as I don't like kde and it forces me to enter my password twice each time I login (once to login, and once to unlock my keyring).

I tried going back to the gdm-2.20 legacy version from the repository, but that BREAKS my entire system. X will not start anymore, instead I see strange garbage on the screen and I cannot even access a virtual console anymore using ctrl-alt-f[1-6] (screen stays blank). Only way to get a working system back was a hard reset, getting a recovery root prompt from the grub menu and removing gdm-2.20 and reinstalling the default gdm.

Please fix this. I am considering going back to an older version of ubuntu, or maybe even plain debian for this issue alone. It's very annoying.