Ticket #470 (closed defect: fixed)
clear login screen state after a few minutes
| Reported by: | geofft | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | The Distant Future |
| Component: | -- | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Fixed in version: | ||
| Upstream bug: |
Description
This may be a bit unrealistic, but then again, it might be trivial to implement.
I've seen users get confused when someone had previously (probably out of curiosity) picked a nonstandard window manager at the login screen and not logged in, so the next user ended up using that WM. Especially with WMs like twm or xmonad that default to a blank screen, this can be a pretty bad user experience. kchen also reports that the same thing is possible with languages -- someone can set a session language at the login screen and not log in, and the next user to log in will get prompted if they want that as their default language.
It would be nice, if possible, to cause that state to disappear if you haven't logged in after a minute or so; equivalently, that state should be made visible on the login screen, a la Athena 9's xlogin, and it should mention some easy way to clear it. (Does "Esc" work?)
This is probably not worth putting effort on for pre-Karmic gdm (i.e., <= 2.20).
In fact, this is trivial to implement.
post-2.20 gdm doesn't display window manager or language selection options until a username has been entered. Problem solved.