Bug 703243

Summary: gdm user selector cannot handle more users than fit on the screen (no scrollbar)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Wendell Baker <wendellcraigbaker>
Component: gdmAssignee: Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 15CC: brian.p.stamper, jmccann, j.romildo, rstrode
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Photo of the user login screen of Fedora 15 prerelease showing no scrollbar none

Description Wendell Baker 2011-05-09 17:44:52 UTC 
Description of problem:

The initial user selector cannot handle more than a few usernames.  There is no scrollbar on the right to allow a large quantity of usernames to be selected.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

$ rpm -q -f /usr/sbin/gdm-binary
gdm-3.0.0-2.fc15.i686


How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Fedora 15 prerelease (circa 2011-05-01)
2. Acquire runlevel 5 (as it used to be known)
3. see the gdm login manager present the choice of users
  
Actual results:

Actuality (a photo) is included separately

Expected results:

A scroll bar should appear and allow for controlled choice among the options.


Additional info:


One can use the arrow keys to move the focus down down down down.  My name (Wendell) appears second-to-last.  So, the workaround is to guess the position of the focus.

The accounts were created with a batch process (a shell script) that created the relevant family member accounts with useradd, usermod and so forth.  That process has been functional more or less since FC4 (it's shouldn't be part of the problem here).
Comment 1 Wendell Baker 2011-05-09 17:52:43 UTC 
Created attachment 497877 [details]
Photo of the user login screen of Fedora 15 prerelease showing no scrollbar

Actuality of the login screen with no scrollbar.
The use of the mouse won't get you to my name (wbaker) down in the 'w' range but if one uses the keyboard arrow keys, then one can get down there.

If you go too far you get to 'Other' which is workable.
My name happens to be second-to-last.
Comment 2 Ray Strode [halfline] 2011-05-25 01:29:18 UTC 
I fixed this upstream here:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gdm/commit/?id=16f7633d280a3ed8ea4b0c99262907edb82a34eb

Will still need to do an f15 update.
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Comment 11 Brian 2011-08-22 20:50:24 UTC 
When might this get pushed to the fedora repository?  This problem persists with gdm-3.0.4-1.fc15.x86_64.  Nothing in the updates-testing repository either.
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