Xubuntu Greeter (LightDM GTK) very glitchy

[Joshua O'Leary]

The LightDM gtk greeter is generally very glitchy. When selecting different users, the interface sometimes freezes, so you have to re-load lightdm from a tty. Sometimes, the user selected is 'stuck on', preventing other users from being selected. Also, the power and accessibility buttons cannot be used if different users are selected. This is not a lightdm fault, as the standard ubuntu theme for Lightdm works fine.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: lightdm-gtk-greeter 1.0.1-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Nov 6 21:21:13 2011
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lightdm
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
Package: lightdm 1.0.1-0ubuntu6
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Tags: oneiric
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, could you add your lightdm.log to the bug when getting the issue? Do you have similar issues with other softwares? What videocard and driver do you use?

[Joshua O'Leary (jmoleary)]

apport information

[Joshua O'Leary (jmoleary)]

From lscpi:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller

Note: when it freezes it isn't a proper freeze. You can still select different users on lightdm via the keyboard up and down arrows, tab and enter, just not the mouse, so its unlikely to be a videocard issue.

[Joshua O'Leary (jmoleary)]

And, as said before, this only happens on the Lightdm GTK theme - the ubuntu lightdm theme (unity style) works fine. Its nothing serious. Just some little glitches that should be considered fixing for a new release.

[Joshua O'Leary (jmoleary)]

Complete hardware details here (hw.txt), from lshw:

[Joshua O'Leary (jmoleary)]

Here is the file. I've just attached this now as the issue happens each time. (If you select different users, sometimes on selecting several different ones, you cannot use the mouse, only the keyboard).

[Joshua O'Leary (jmoleary)]

Marking as fix -released as this seems to be resolved with the new xubuntu gtk theme.