Unity Greeter -- no smooth transition to Desktop

Bug #1053556 reported by Rainer Rohde
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
unity-greeter (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Unity-greeter seems to have lost its ability to transition to the desktop while showing the user wallpaper.

Now, it only shows a black screen instead of the wallpaper during the login process.

It used to work much better before, so this is a regression.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: unity-greeter 12.10.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-15.22-generic 3.5.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-15-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.5.2-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Sep 20 13:33:35 2012
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lightdm
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Rainer Rohde (rainer-rohde) wrote :
tags: added: lightdm login regression transition
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Rainer Rohde (rainer-rohde) wrote :

This bug still persists in beta 2!

tags: added: unity-greeter
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Rainer Rohde (rainer-rohde) wrote :

This issue still persists in unity-greeter 12.10.4

summary: - lightdm -- no longer shows wallpaper / no smooth transition
+ Unity Greeter -- no smooth transition to Desktop
description: updated
affects: lightdm (Ubuntu) → unity-greeter (Ubuntu)
tags: removed: lightdm
description: updated
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in unity-greeter (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Rainer Rohde (rainer-rohde) wrote :

Thanks for acknowledged this bug.

Needless to say, this bug persists with the current built of Ubuntu 13.10 as well. :/

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