I post duplicate bug report #652813.
As I say in my post: I think
setting DE, language and layout must be independently of authentication
method(with password, without password).
Method of editing .dmrc is not good, because before you change it, you must
login, edit file, logout. I think it must
Guram: I'm not sure the solution is to change the login screen's
behavior. Since you can't guess that the user is going to click on an
account with password-less login, you would have to see the options all
the time. This means you cannot know what language and keyboard layout
are the default for
** Tags added: lucid
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Unable to change options on passwordless login
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/508552
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** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed = Triaged
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Unable to change options on passwordless login
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/508552
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Yeah you are right, thanks!
For desperate Lucid users who stumble across this bug report: if you
need to change the settings for your passwordless account only once, you
can do so in ~/.dmrc. This file looks like this:
[Desktop]
Session=gnome
Language=cs_CZ.UTF-8
Layout=de
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Unable to change
I've updated a little the description since the feature is only
officially available in Lucid, so no need to disturb people with Karmic
issues.
I guess one way of fixing this would be, as you say, to show the options
before an user is chosen. Not sure that fits well in the code's design.
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