add a way to prefill username field with last username used.

[Nick Jenkins]

Looking for a way to have the Ubuntu login screen "remember" the last logged in username, so that I just have to press enter to reuse the last login name, and then it goes straight to the password prompt.

Under system->administration->login window, I currently have it set to show the list of users, so I can click on my full name. Ideally though, I would like the username to be prefilled, and just have to press enter, and then type my password, without using the mouse.

I.e. I am fine with my username being disclosed to anyone who walks up to the login screen, but I still want to have to authenticate myself with a password. I could not see a way to do this, and some Google searches (e.g. "Ubuntu login screen remember username") did not turn up anything that looked applicable, other than this similar request: http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread47878.html

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Release: Ubuntu 8.04.1, AMD64.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, could you send the request on bugzilla.gnome.org where the people writting the software will read it? it's not likely the ubuntu team will change it in a distribution specific way

[Nick Jenkins (nickpj)]

Done! Logged upstream as: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550822
My apologies for logging it in the wrong place - I didn't mean to suggest that this was a distribution-specific thing - it's not - more something that would be nice to have in gnome generally.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for sending the request to GNOME

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

this has been fixed upstream, thanks for reporting.

[Nick Jenkins (nickpj)]

I am testing out the pre-release of Ubuntu 9.04, but unfortunately it only seems to have GDM version 2.20.10-0ubuntu2. Is there a chance that we could please update to GDM 2.22 or higher? This is because 2.22 is the version that has the upstream fix described above.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the new gdm version is in karmic now

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the new gdm version is in karmic now