Bug 135965

Summary:	Request: a cancellation mechanism for when I mistype my username
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Dave Malcolm <dmalcolm>
Component:	gdm	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description Dave Malcolm 2004-10-15 22:20:15 UTC

I'm always mistyping my username at the login screen, hitting a second
key near the return key as I press return.

If I mistype my username at the login screen, I have to hit return for
the password entry, and endure a few seconds delay.

I'd like some kind of "Cancel" or "Back" feature (perhaps by pressing
Escape) that lets me go back from the password entry screen and enter
my username correctly.

Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2006-02-05 05:53:09 UTC

We had this for a while in gdm. I liked it too.

Comment 3 Ray Strode [halfline] 2007-03-28 16:25:36 UTC

Themes can already have a "cancel" button now, but escape doesn't work.  We used
to have a patch that added the feature, but we've since removed it.  We should
dig it out of the archives and get it upstream i guess.

Comment 4 Matthias Clasen 2007-03-29 01:45:05 UTC

Actually, doesn't Esc work with the face browser in fc7. Istr that i noticed it
working at some point.

Comment 5 Matthias Clasen 2007-03-30 13:31:48 UTC

no, I was wrong. Esc doesn't work.

Comment 6 Ray Strode [halfline] 2007-04-18 17:47:26 UTC

moving to F8Target

Comment 7 Ray Strode [halfline] 2007-10-02 15:26:49 UTC

should be good to go:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=180532