select desktop environment shows OK button out of display

[martin suchanek]

Serious bug appeared when amount of desktop environments is more than ~13 , list of desktop environments is shown out of display. There is no possibility to select desktop environment and confirm it by click on OK button because it is not visible. It is not even possible to guess how many times to click on Tab to get on OK button and click on it .

(Workarround is to delete some of *.desktop files from /usr/share/xsessions directory or downgrade package unity-greeter to
version for 12.04 ubuntu - but it is really not appropriate solving !)

Ubuntu 12.04 did not have that problem because "select desktop environment" menu opened in the middle of user login input dialog box meanwhile 12.10 version it unroll menu from login input box to down and get out of display.

I tried to install unity-greeter package 13.04 (ubuntu raring) but it has the same problem.

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.10
Release: 12.10

apt-cache policy unity-greeter
unity-greeter:
  Installed: 12.10.4-0ubuntu5.1
  Candidate: 12.10.4-0ubuntu5.1
  Version table:
 *** 12.10.4-0ubuntu5.1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-proposed/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     12.10.4-0ubuntu5 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages

kind regards.

[martin suchanek (martin-suc)]

The better workaround which I am using now is exchange lightdm for gdm