Disabling assistive technologies during login

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Published on 2010-10-11T23:47:02Z Indexed on 2011/03/10 8:18 UTC
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I have a laptop with Ubuntu 10.04.

My daughter was playing with the keyboard on the login screen, and it seems she activated some assistive technologies because now the screen is split vertically and the right side shows a magnified version of the left side. Plus, there's a screen keyboard.

The way the screen is split makes it impossible for me to disable the assistive stuff from the toolbar at the bottom, since I can only see part of it.

I don't know if it's a bug or what, because I'd guess I could see the entire bar on the right (magnified) side just by moving the mouse there, but I can't.

I can't even type on the login screen, nor use the on-screen keyboard... Good thing I have auto-login activated, so I can still use the computer, but I can't switch users.

So, does anyone know how to get the normal login screen back?

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