Bug 454180

Summary:	gdm removed support for clearing entered password with Control-U
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jim Radford <radford>
Component:	gdm	Assignee:	jmccann
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	9	CC:	cschalle, rstrode
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Description Jim Radford 2008-07-06 02:38:56 UTC

Most unix/linux password prompts, shell prompts and gtk text entry boxes support
using Control-U to clear the previously entered text.  Somehow the latest gdm
seems to have (accidentally I hope) broken/removed support for this.  This used
to work on all previous version of RedHat and Fedora including and up to Fedora 8.

Supporting this feature should take no effort since gtk entries support this by
default.  I don't see this explicitly being disabled in the source, but I could
just have missed, so maybe it's a bug?

I'm using gdm-2.22.0-8.fc9.x86_64.

Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2008-07-07 15:01:52 UTC

Hey Jim,

Yea, the feature definitely wasn't intentionally excluded (although I don't
think gtk entries support it by default unless they're running in emacs mode)

Anyway, we should fix this, but would you mind moving the bug upstream?  If you
don't want to, I can.

Jon or I will probably still be the ones that end up fixing the issue, but it's
nicer when the reports are in one place.

Comment 2 Jim Radford 2008-07-07 21:21:09 UTC

Thanks Ray.  I added the bug to the gnome bugzilla and linked it back here.

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_activity.cgi?id=541958

Comment 3 Ray Strode [halfline] 2008-07-08 13:56:04 UTC

Thanks much, Jim.