Since this bug was originally filed in 2009, some versions of Ubuntu were able to present a login screen in portrait mode. This functionality seems to have been lost again, presumably in the switch to Unity.
This problem should have high priority in light of the strategic ambitions of Ubuntu to be more widely used by business. If a company has even a portion of its machines running Ubuntu in portrait mode for word processing or publishing, it is going to be reluctant to adopt Ubuntu if login is difficult for those machines. The alternative, for machines to auto-login when turned on, is a possibility for some home users, but a non-starter for businesses. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/449506 Title: No GUI option to set screen rotation of greeter Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: gdm I have rotated my monitor to portrait view, and set the rotation in Display Preferences. This doesn't rotate the login screen, making it difficult to navigate to the password field with the mouse. I know that the login screen is independent of session settings, for the case of multiple users, but perhaps it should remember the last setting, or have a keyboard shortcut for rotation. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Mon Oct 12 13:37:52 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Package: gdm 2.28.0-0ubuntu14 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic SourcePackage: gdm Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/449506/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
