Cannot click other sessions in unity-greeter

[Keith Drummond]

Ubuntu 12.10 Beta

When I go to choose the desktop environment at log in I can not select the top 'GNOME' option. All other options are clickable.

A suggested workaround from the Ubuntu Forums by user jfernyhough is; "Workaround: edit ~/.dmrc and change Session= to the one you're after."

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: lightdm 1.3.3-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-14.19-generic 3.5.3
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-14-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.5.2-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 18 12:49:50 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120905.2)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_IE:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lightdm
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Jonathon Fernyhough (jfernyhough)]

As far as I can tell any mouse click on the first two session options passes through onto the login fields rather than the session selection box.

[Sam (litle-sam)]

Affects me to all the same way as been posted.

[Tarek Loubani (tareko)]

Another workaround is to use tab to select the correct session (spacebar once on it).

tarek : )

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

Michael, can you please give it a look? Looks serious.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity-greeter - 12.10.3-0ubuntu3

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unity-greeter (12.10.3-0ubuntu3) quantal; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/trunk_session_chooser.patch:
    - backport from trunk: "Fix bug preventing user from clicking
      on first few sessions in session chooser (lp: #1052453)"
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:02:40 +0200

[Keith Clark (keithclark)]

Still not fixed. I cannot select any session now. I can use tab, then spacebar but it still only starts in xubuntu mode. The mode I normally run. I cannot select GNOME, Unity or KDE.

[VanillaMozilla (vanillamozilla)]

This is definitely not fixed in unity-greeter 12.10.4-0ubuntu5. I absolutely cannot select desktops. Do we need to start over with another bug report?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

@VanillaMozilla: yes, open a new bug report

[Patrick van der Leer (pat-vdleer)]

I can confirm that this bug is not fixed, just clean installed 12.10, equiped it with LXDE and others, none are selectable.

[Heimen Stoffels (vistaus)]

It's indeed not fixed. I don't see why it was changed to Fix Released when nothing is fixed...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

it was fixed for the people who reported the issue, if you still have a bug register a new ticket