[karmic] requires mouse interaction to log in

[Aaron Haviland]

Binary package hint: gdm

GDM does not seem to allow keyboard interaction to choose the user from the list of users, in any way that I've figured out so far. When I'm presented with a list (with the two options being my username, and "other...") , and my username is the one highlighted, I find it intuitive to just hit enter instead of having to click on the username. Even with multiple users, I'd expect the up/down arrows to be usable, but they are not.

It does not seem to be a focus issue, either, as clicking on the dialog (but not selecting anything) has no change in the keyboard function. It seems gdm ignores the keyboard until it's prompting for specific input.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 9 19:16:19 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gdm 2.28.0-0ubuntu14
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: gdm
Uname: Linux 2.6.31.2-eris1 i686

[praveenmarkandu (praveenmarkandu)]

it is possible to use the keyboard to select the username by pressing ctrl+alt+tab.
however doing this is not ideal and the username box should be selected by default