After Gnome upgrade GDM login screen always says "Other..." [SOLVED]

After the recent Gnome upgrade GDM login screen started looking strange:
It shows a blue (highlighted?) disabled editbox that says "Other..." which I now must click on to get the usual username/password edit boxes. WTF?
Pressing Enter won't do anything, it wants a mouse click. I find it extremely annoying to click on the stupid thing every time I need to login. I have waited a couple of weeks hoping this would come up in Google searches but it didn't.
Can't do a screenshot of a login prompt.
Seems like the login is supposed to show a list of users plus "Other" thing at the bottom. But I'm not getting the list, just "Other..." box.
Last edited by softtower (2010-10-12 01:13:30)

I haven't touched that setting and the list of users is visible for me (in addition to the Other... option).
# sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --get /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list
false
There, however, is the annoying issue that focus is initially outside the login box. I have to press arrow down before pressing enter to select a user. Perhaps that behavior would make more sense if I had several users on the system (i.e. the first one on the list would not necessarily be me).

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