Mouse speed settings not used on the login screen
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
gnome-shell (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The login screen doesn't use the mouse hardware settings. In particular it doesn't seem to use the mouse speed settings. This gives an inconsistent feeling between the login screen and the desktop if you're not using the default speed in the desktop. In my case I need to make the mouse speed much slower to be usable and that means that when I'm in the login screen the mouse is very jumpy.
The same thing happens for the screen size settings (defaulting to 200% instead of the 100% I've set) but that's less inconvenient although still shows lack of polish. I assume this is because these settings are per-user but for the vast majority of desktops that's a single person anyway so it's a bad default.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.28.1-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Jun 28 11:28:31 2018
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-05-31 (27 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
This is unfortunately correct.
The login screen runs as user 'gdm' which is not privileged. That means it has no access to retrieve your personal settings until after you have entered a password. So it uses the system defaults.
You might be able to change the system defaults by editing this file as root: glib-2. 0/schemas/ org.gnome. desktop. peripherals. gschema. xml
/usr/share/