Bug 2237846

Summary:	gdm login screen doesn't show user's display name if it's longer than 25 characters
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik>
Component:	gnome-shell	Assignee:	GNOME SIG Unassigned <gnome-sig>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	38	CC:	adscvr, fmuellner, gnome-sig, jadahl, mclasen, otaylor, philip.wyett, rstrode
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Description Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2023-09-07 09:50:47 UTC

gdm displays only user logins instead of their Names for any users who have a hyphen in their Name.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch GNOME Control Center Users tab (gnome-control-center users)
2. Put something with a hyphen (-) in your Name (e.g. John Foo-Bar)
3. Log out and see the list of users at the login screen

Actual Results:  
Any name with a hyphen (e.g. John Foo-Bar) is not displayed. Instead only login name is displayed

Expected Results:  
All names, including those with hyphens and other special characters should be displayed.

gdm-44.1-1.fc38.x86_64

Comment 1 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2023-09-07 10:30:45 UTC

To avoid confusion:
user login = username (i.e. what you type to log in)
user Name = user display name (descriptive text about user, usually their name, a.k.a. GECOS field)

Comment 2 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2023-09-07 11:05:42 UTC

So the actual issue is not with the hyphen or special characters
but the length of the display name.

Thanks to @fmuellner for informing me of that "feature".

Comment 3 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2023-09-07 11:08:18 UTC

The user display name that I saw this bug with has 29 characters, so please try reproducing with something like:
Abbey Westington-Cloverfield

Comment 4 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2023-09-13 07:58:32 UTC

This was moved to gnome-shell upstream so moving in Fedora as well.

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