Autologin timeout countdown should stop on user input

Bug #1803783 reported by pezcurrel
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
LightDM GTK Greeter
New
Unknown

Bug Description

When autologin is active the "countdown" should stop on user input in order for the user to have the time to select a different user and type the password even when autologin-user-timeout is set to low values (eg 5 seconds or so). Unity greeter cancels the timer when switching users. liblightdm-gobject provides a lightdm_greeter_cancel_autologin method for this.

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pezcurrel (pezcurrel) wrote :

I propose these 2 patches mostly as a "proof of concept". They enable the user to cancel autologin by just clicking on the background. Surely it could be done much better, with, say, a button somewhere stating "Cancel autologin", but I'm not a coder. Anyway I do propose these patches to hopefully get some attention on this issue which makes lightdm-gtk-greeter mostly unusable in one of its main purposes (switching user) when autologin timeout is set to low values, like 5 seconds or so.

Sean Davis (bluesabre)
Changed in lightdm-gtk-greeter:
importance: Undecided → Unknown
status: New → Unknown
Changed in lightdm-gtk-greeter:
status: Unknown → New
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