Bug#355571: gdm: bad focus with xinerama

Marc Glisse glisse at stedding.loria.fr
Mon Mar 6 14:31:19 UTC 2006


Package: gdm
Version: 2.8.0.6-2
Severity: minor

Hello,

I am using xinerama with 2 screens next to each other (horizontally).
When I use gdm, it appears only on the left screen, which is good because
I don't want the dialog box between the two screens and the themes would
look ugly if they were stretched. But when the mouse cursor is on the
right screen, the dialog box does not have the focus, so I need to move
the mouse before I can type my username and password. And when I start
gdm, the mouse cursor is on the leftmost column of the right screen, so I
am confronted to this issue every time. Could gdm maybe set the focus to
the dialog box without allowing it to leave?


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (50, 'testing'), (10, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser              3.80                Add and remove users and groups
ii  afterstep [x-window- 2.2.0-1             window manager with the NEXTSTEP l
ii  aterm [x-terminal-em 1.0.0-2             Afterstep XVT - a VT102 emulator f
ii  aterm-ml [x-terminal 1.0.0-2             Afterstep XVT - a VT102 emulator f
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0 1.4.71              Debian configuration management sy
ii  enlightenment [x-win 1:0.16.7.2-3        The Enlightenment Window Manager
ii  eterm [x-terminal-em 0.9.3-1             Enlightened Terminal Emulator
ii  fluxbox [x-window-ma 0.9.14-1.1          Highly configurable and low resour
ii  fvwm-gnome [x-window 1:2.5.16-2          F(?) Virtual Window Manager, versi
ii  gksu                 1.3.6-1             graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session        2.12.0-4            The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal [x-te 2.12.0-2            The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  icewm [x-window-mana 1.2.25-1            wonderful Win95-OS/2-Motif-like wi
ii  konsole [x-terminal- 4:3.5.1-1           X terminal emulator for KDE
ii  kwin [x-window-manag 4:3.5.1-1           the KDE window manager
ii  larswm [x-window-man 7.5.3-4             Lars Window Manager with tiled win
ii  libart-2.0-2         2.3.17-1            Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0          1.10.3-1            The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1             2.4.25-1            Extended attribute shared library
ii  libaudiofile0        0.2.6-6             Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0         2.10.1-1            Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0       2.10.1-2            The Bonobo UI library
ii  libbz2-1.0           1.0.3-2             high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                2.3.5-13            GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcroco3            0.6.0-2             a generic Cascading Style Sheet (C
ii  libdmx1              6.9.0.dfsg.1-4      Distributed Multihead X client lib
ii  libesd-alsa0 [libesd 0.2.36-3            Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - 
ii  libgconf2-4          2.12.1-9            GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11          1.2.2-1             LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0          1:2.5.1-2           library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.8.6-1             The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0    0.4.7-1             GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0          2.12.0.1-5          The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0    2.12.0-2            A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0         2.12.1-1            The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0       2.12.2-5            GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgnutls11          1.0.16-14           GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgpg-error0        1.1-4               library for common error values an
ii  libgsf-1-113         1.13.3-1            Structured File Library - runtime 
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.8.12-1            The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6              6.9.0.dfsg.1-4      Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62            6b-11               The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liborbit2            1:2.12.4-1          libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpam-modules       0.79-3.1            Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime       0.79-3.1            Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g             0.79-3.1            Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0        1.10.3-1            Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0             1.7-5               lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2           2.12.7-5            SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1          1.28-4              SELinux shared libraries
ii  libsm6               6.9.0.dfsg.1-4      X Window System Session Management
ii  libtasn1-2           0.2.17-1            Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libwrap0             7.6.dbs-8           Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6             6.9.0.dfsg.1-4      X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxau6              6.9.0.dfsg.1-4      X Authentication library
ii  libxdmcp6            6.9.0.dfsg.1-4      X Display Manager Control Protocol
ii  libxext6             6.9.0.dfsg.1-4      X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxi6               6.9.0.dfsg.1-4      X Window System Input extension li
ii  libxinerama1         6.9.0.dfsg.1-4      X Window System multi-head display
ii  libxml2              2.6.23.dfsg.2-2     GNOME XML library
ii  metacity [x-window-m 1:2.12.3-3          A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  rxvt-unicode-ml [x-t 7.5-1               multi-lingual terminal emulator wi
ii  sawfish [x-window-ma 1:1.3+cvs20050709-6 a window manager for X11
ii  wmaker [x-window-man 0.92.0-5.2          NeXTSTEP-like window manager for X
ii  wterm [x-terminal-em 6.2.9-8             lightweight terminal emulator for 
ii  wterm-ml [x-terminal 6.2.9-8             lightweight multilingual terminal 
ii  xbase-clients        6.9.0.dfsg.1-4      miscellaneous X clients
ii  xfce [x-window-manag 3.8.18-2            The Cholesterol Free Desktop Envir
ii  xfwm4 [x-window-mana 4.2.3.2-2           window manager of the Xfce project
ii  xlibs                6.9.0.dfsg.1-4      X Window System client libraries m
ii  xterm [x-terminal-em 208-3.1             X terminal emulator
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.3-9           compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gdm recommends:
ii  dialog                    1.0-20060126-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  gdm-themes                0.5            Themes for the GNOME Display Manag
ii  whiptail                  0.51.6-31      Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  zenity                    2.12.1-2       Display graphical dialog boxes fro

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