[8565] in athena10
Re: Disability settings interfere with logging in
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anders Kaseorg)
Wed Oct 19 14:04:33 2011
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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:04:23 -0400
From: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU>
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To: Keith Winstein <keithw@mit.edu>
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On 10/19/2011 12:43 PM, Keith Winstein wrote:
> I had trouble logging in to a Debathena quickstation because (I
> eventually figured out) somebody had selected "ignore duplicate key
> presses" from the disability/usability menu of the login screen. This
> was not very clear while typing my password!
>
> You might consider reverting these settings to the defaults if there
> has been no activity for some number of minutes.
There’s an open Ubuntu bug for this issue:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/758335
But I bet an upstream gdm bug would get more developer attention.
Anders
