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Unity8 displays name incorrectly at login

Bug #1497081 reported by Daniel van Vugt
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
unity8 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Josh Arenson

Bug Description

Unity8 displays name incorrectly at login.

My username is: dan
My name is: Daniel van Vugt

Unity8 shows on the login screen: Dan
It should show either "dan" or "Daniel van Vugt".

Related branches

lp:~josharenson/unity8/fixMangledUsername
Lukáš Tinkl (community): Approve
PS Jenkins bot (community): Needs Fixing (continuous-integration)
Diff: 13 lines (+1/-2)
1 file modified
plugins/IntegratedLightDM/liblightdm/UsersModelPrivate.cpp (+1/-2)
Michael Zanetti (mzanetti)
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Josh Arenson (josharenson)
Revision history for this message
Josh Arenson (josharenson) wrote :

The IntegratedLightDM mucks with model data when it should just respect the result returned. This was brought to my attention by "Gizmo Chicken" on youtube. I had promised a fix included in the slim greeter branch, but have written a small, separate, patch instead.

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Josh Arenson (josharenson) wrote :

And just to elaborate further, on the phone (or any form factor that uses integratedLightDm) will show whatever $USER returns (I believe this to be case-sensitive username). Form factors that use the fullLightDM (desktop) will return the (unmodified) display name.

Example:
Phone-> josh
Desktop-> Josh Arenson

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package unity8 - 8.11+16.04.20151126-0ubuntu1

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unity8 (8.11+16.04.20151126-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  [ Albert Astals Cid ]
  * Initialize the image to be transparent (LP: #1517128)
  * Update pot file
  * clazy improvements

  [ Andrea Cimitan ]
  * Shadows in launcher and dash using UbuntuShapeIcon

  [ CI Train Bot ]
  * Resync trunk.

  [ Daniel d'Andrada ]
  * Cursor plugin: add scroll wheel handling (LP: #1497091)
  * Cursor: Add more fallback names, a blank and custom cursor support
  * DesktopStage: swiping from right edge shows window spread
  * Don't stretch application surfaces when resizing (LP: #1497083)
  * Mouse has to push against edges to show launcher or apps spread (LP:
    #1510969)

  [ Josh Arenson ]
  * Don't let IntegratedLightDM muck with the username (LP: #1497081)

  [ Lukáš Tinkl ]
  * Implement new visuals for panel and window decorations (LP:
    #1493066, #1511020, #1497095)
  * Let systemd/logind handle the lid-close action
  * Make saving screenshots really async

  [ Michael Zanetti ]
  * detect touchpads too, not only mice (LP: #1518395)
  * move screenshots out of the Dash dir

 -- Michał Sawicz <email address hidden> Thu, 26 Nov 2015 13:52:00 +0000

Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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