Comment 3 for bug 449506

Since this bug was originally filed in 2009, some versions of Ubuntu were able to present a login screen in portrait mode. This functionality seems to have been lost again, presumably in the switch to Unity.

This problem should have high priority in light of the strategic ambitions of Ubuntu to be more widely used by business. If a company has even a portion of its machines running Ubuntu in portrait mode for word processing or publishing, it is going to be reluctant to adopt Ubuntu if login is difficult for those machines.

The alternative, for machines to auto-login when turned on, is a possibility for some home users, but a non-starter for businesses.