lightdm issue in live-cd

Christoph Wickert christoph.wickert at gmail.com
Fri Nov 23 18:56:00 UTC 2012


Am Freitag, den 23.11.2012, 08:32 -0200 schrieb Sergio:
> Hello.
> Probably because 'Live System User' has no password, lightdm is broken 
> for keyboard navigation in the live-cd.

I have tested it and it doesn't really make a difference, the keyboary
navigation is just broken. The arrow keys work, to a degree, but when
hitting a dropdown one is stuck.

> If it had a password, when choosing the user the focus would jump to the 
> password field and then one could hit enter or navigate to the other 
> buttons.

I cannot confirm this form my testing.

>  The way it is now hitting 'enter' just expands the user options 
> and there's no way to change focus to the 'login' button.
> 
> Anyway, this seems a limitation of the gtk greeter. Is it planned to 
> skip the DM screen altogether like in previous versions that used gdm?

I don't think we should do this because then we miss the language
selector. It's a last resort though.

Kind regards,
Christoph




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