Bug#948251: lightdm-gtk-greeter: default indicators cause hostname to not be centered
Package: lightdm-gtk-greeter Version: 2.0.7-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, Out of the box, the indicator panel in lightdm doesn't look good. The hostname shows up about 2/3rds of the way across the screen rather than being either left-justified or centered. Changing the indicators= line in the config file as attached to the report makes it look visually better. I'm not sure if the solution is to set a default indicators= line in the Debian config file shipped with the package or to refer this upstream so that it has a sensible default without having to have it be set explicitly. -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages lightdm-gtk-greeter depends on: ii libc6 2.29-8 ii libcairo2 1.16.0-4 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.40.0+dfsg-2 ii libglib2.0-02.62.4-1 ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.13-1 ii libindicator3-7 0.5.0-4 ii liblightdm-gobject-1-0 1.26.0-6+b1 ii libx11-62:1.6.8-1 Versions of packages lightdm-gtk-greeter recommends: ii adwaita-icon-theme 3.34.0-2 ii desktop-base10.0.3 ii gnome-themes-extra 3.28-1 ii policykit-1 0.105-26 lightdm-gtk-greeter suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf changed: [greeter] indicators=~host;~spacer;~clock;~spacer;~session;~language;~a11y;~power -- no debconf information
Bug#929834: Found a workaround which also solves other oddities
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Sun, 2020-01-05 at 19:19 +0100, Alf wrote: > So, my guess is that this nasty bug is actually caused not caused by > light-locker, but instead by xorg-server which either looses the mouse > or fails to (re)start with correct configuration. With said xorg.conf > all this is gone. It would help to report that against the X server and providing the new xorg.conf as well as the old and new Xorg.0.log. Regards, - -- Yves-Alexis -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEE8vi34Qgfo83x35gF3rYcyPpXRFsFAl4SKzcACgkQ3rYcyPpX RFvARwf/T739oKjwfFM95wz3yqBkxngBXaP9G/nOkp0VX4ZZzJoX2oOfosi18aCm YeLUbENj4oBhCtKzgO05Ph7P/VSR6EiuoXAEGch2Sk8Vvf2TGL70851Pkw47AlIJ 5RQL6x2wPiThnKpxJL2NlEmVKpngqq2Nz/6C5ivgKipcX/hl2evsEJMZIhCN0lzz RF1BwT0FRPPFpyBHHtO17F9vC8zF1t9qA9WaJLsACemzFp8dsoV3tkXHl4Bg6yVa x9HD3ZbW3O0j4AltevNQ0LHjL2RUuYJEHBT9bRhNqqApZp7WVW3gYsbnrtFazlvr +1pz758kFx1gXEiBqDyhKvGe0xNtkg== =j1EZ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Bug#929834: Found a workaround which also solves other oddities
I did try the different workarounds in Buster like "xset s off", disabling light-locker so it wouldn't start, tried kernel 5.3. All these improved the situations with "black screen", but finally still some situations where the monitor should awake from DPMS state remained and I had to switch virtual console (Ctrl+Alf+F1/F7) randomly every few days. Now I discovered this posting from Dai_trying: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10=142383#p700796 and generated a /etc/X11/xorg.conf as described service lightdm stop X -configure cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf And that really works without any glitches for over a week so far. Additionally it also solved another bug which I reported on 19. March 2019: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=893559 It caused solaar (tool to manage Logitech Unifying Receiver) failing to start in xfce4 when set up for automatic start in session. Now it starts reliable iconised in the xfce4-panel. So, my guess is that this nasty bug is actually caused not caused by light-locker, but instead by xorg-server which either looses the mouse or fails to (re)start with correct configuration. With said xorg.conf all this is gone.
