The new version of gdm is painfully slow on my system. If I type my username and press Enter (or just press Enter when my picture is selected), then immediately continue typing my password before gdm draws the password field (which takes about a second), it appears verbatim in a GTK typeahead find popup.
Just so you know, I'm on a Dell Core2 Duo laptop with an nVidia Quadro NVS 135M video card using the open source "nv" driver. The whole X system is a little sluggish, but this is the only place where it's a major issue.
Hi, So we should probably do two things 1) disable type ahead after the user presses enter 2) maybe queue up keystrokes and replay them when the password prompt comes up like we do for gnome-screensaver's lock dialog.
#2 sounds like a good idea, but make sure it flushes additional key presses after it cancels out of a password dialog, if you know what I mean.
* Wed Apr 16 2008 Ray Strode <rstrode> - 1:2.21.10-0.2008.04.16.1 - Disable typeahead when asking for password so password can't get shown in clear text (bug 442300)
This seems to work now for me. Can you retest?
I don't do the part 2) queueing yet.
*** Bug 442243 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Hi Mikel, Mind giving gdm-2.21.10-0.2008.04.28.1.fc9 (http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=47545) a spin? It should be faster, disable the type ahead pop up, and queue key strokes made during the animation for after the animation finishes.
It didn't disable the typeahead find during the user selection, but I assume you just meant after Enter is pressed. I can't reproduce the problem any more, so it's fixed as far as I can tell.
That's right. Thanks, I'll request it gets tagged.
Tagged and signed; should appear in tomorrow's rawhide.