Difficulty selecting DE on a netbook
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Unity Greeter |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
In Ubuntu 12.10 with xfce-desktop and lxde-desktop installed on a netbook (1024x600 resolution) the list of desktop environments is longer than the vertical size of the screen, such that the bottom item can't be selected with the cursor. This makes it very difficult to select another desktop.
It is possible to use combinations of tab, enter and space to select the environment, but this is so non-intuitive that it took me over an hour of IRCing and web searching to figure out.
Two suggestions:
1. If the list goes off of the bottom of the screen then make it scrollable - like the unity launcher.
2. Allow selection of items with the up and down cursor keys. This would be far more standard and intuitive than the obscure tab/enter/space combinations.
This problem may apply to any device with limited vertical screen space, such as tablets.
| Sami Jaktholm (sjakthol) wrote | #1 |
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1068605, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.