Bug#301594: gdm: Login failure message exceeds display width

Nikolaus Schulz Nikolaus Schulz <microschulz@web.de>, 301594@bugs.debian.org
Mon, 28 Mar 2005 04:27:45 +0200


Hi Josselin,

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Using the graphical greeter with XGA resolution (1024x768), the german
> > login failure message saying "username or password is wrong... blabla"
> > exceeds the display width. 
> > It's easy to guess the full meaning, but still it's quite annoying. 
> > Hey, we want to conquer the desktop! :-) This shouldn't happen. 
> 
> Which display resolution (dpi) are you using? I've never seen that, even
> on a 800x600 display.

Does this matter? I guess not. Anyways, the display has 106 dpi. 
Note that I'm speaking of the _german_ message. It's much longer than
the english one. (Another long winded german translation :-/)
Citing de.po:

#: daemon/verify-crypt.c:75 daemon/verify-pam.c:1032
daemon/verify-shadow.c:76
msgid ""
"\n"
"Incorrect username or password.  Letters must be typed in the correct
case."
msgstr ""
"\n"
"Der Benutzername oder das Passwort ist fehlerhaft. Buchstaben müssen
unter "
"Berücksichtigung der Groß-/Kleinschreibung eingegeben werden."

Have a nice day,
Nikolaus