Ubuntu
gdm package

No GUI option to set screen rotation of greeter

Bug #449506 reported by Steve Holmes
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This bug affects 8 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gdm (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gdm

I have rotated my monitor to portrait view, and set the rotation in Display Preferences. This doesn't rotate the login screen, making it difficult to navigate to the password field with the mouse.

I know that the login screen is independent of session settings, for the case of multiple users, but perhaps it should remember the last setting, or have a keyboard shortcut for rotation.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 12 13:37:52 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gdm 2.28.0-0ubuntu14
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: gdm
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686

Revision history for this message
Steve Holmes (bouncysteve) wrote :
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in gdm (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
summary: - gdm login screen not rotated
+ No GUI option to set screen rotation of greeter
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gdm (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Bruce Dunn (brucedunn) wrote :

Since this bug was originally filed in 2009, some versions of Ubuntu were able to present a login screen in portrait mode. This functionality seems to have been lost again, presumably in the switch to Unity.

This problem should have high priority in light of the strategic ambitions of Ubuntu to be more widely used by business. If a company has even a portion of its machines running Ubuntu in portrait mode for word processing or publishing, it is going to be reluctant to adopt Ubuntu if login is difficult for those machines.

The alternative, for machines to auto-login when turned on, is a possibility for some home users, but a non-starter for businesses.

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H.-Dirk Schmitt (dirk-computer42) wrote :

still a problem in raring

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