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Bug 701518 - clock overlay loses keyboard focus when no user is logged in
clock overlay loses keyboard focus when no user is logged in
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 708105
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.6.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-06-03 12:46 UTC by Mario Wenzel
Modified: 2014-07-14 21:28 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.5/3.6


Description Mario Wenzel 2013-06-03 12:46:25 UTC 
On the login screen, if nobody enters anything, the clock overlay is shown. If no user has logged in yet, on pressing enter there is no keyboard focus on the user selection and there is no way to log in without a mouse.

If a user is already logged in (and you change the user) or the screen is locked, pressing enter removing the clock overlay keeps the keyboard focus on the login window causing no problems.
Only when no user is logged in.

This happens on vanilla Fedora 18.
GDM 3.6.2
Comment 1 Gergely POLONKAI 2014-07-14 21:10:43 UTC 
Although this bug report is pretty old now (and it seems to have 4 duplicates, #731637, #733014, #712541 and #708105), there *is* a solution, although not documented.

You may press Ctrl-Alt-Tab to cycle between login screen elements, including the top bar.

This, however, is only a workaround, I hope someone fixes this issue soon. It still exists in 3.12.
Comment 2 Jasper St. Pierre (not reading bugmail) 2014-07-14 21:28:22 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 708105 ***