Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Title:
Keyboard selection not remembered in unity-greeter
Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Prior to 11.10, the Ubuntu login screen remembered my keyboard selection --
so that I can type my password using my preferred (Dvorak) keyboard. The
bottom panel on the greeter would allow me to select another keyboard if
desired, as well as a different session manager. Since there is now no
keyboard indicator, when I type my password as, for example, "password1", the
computer gets "ra;;,soh1" and rejects my login. I cannot tell why, since the
dots all look the same. I can only presume that if I were using a password
with actual foreign characters, this might prevent me from being able to log in
at all. As it is, since all of my password characters are actually present on
the keyboard, but in different places, I can log on slowly using the
hunt-and-peck method of typing. I am used to this, since MS Windows suffers
from the same problem, but it is an unfortunate regression in Ubuntu.
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Vernon
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity 4.12.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins:
[core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,mousepoll,vpswitch,regex,animation,snap,expo,move,compiztoolbox,place,grid,imgpng,gnomecompat,wall,ezoom,workarounds,staticswitcher,resize,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,scale,session,unityshell]
Date: Thu Sep 8 10:38:37 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110426)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-06 (2 days ago)
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