Bug#685674: gdm3: Esc key does not abort the password entering dialog

[Paul Menzel]

Am Donnerstag, den 23.08.2012, 11:05 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel:

[…]

> in GDM it is not possible anymore to use the ESC key to abort the dialog
> for entering the password.
> 
> On #debian someone confirmed it worked with 2.30.5-6squeeze4 from Debian
> Squeeze/stable. It worked for me with 2.30.5-10. Another person
> confirmed that it also does *not* work with current Debian Sid/unstable.
> 
> Unfortunately I did get nobody responded to my ticket #679132 submitted
> to the upstream GNOME Bugzilla [1].

They now did. It turns out that this bug is present in GDM’s fallback
mode, which is enabled by default in Debian Wheezy due to the late
packaging of GDM 3.4.1 for Debian Wheezy.

jordi in #debian-gnome on irc.oftc.net told me that I can configure this
in `/etc/gdm3/greeter.gsettings` by changing the variable
`session-name`.

        # Greeter session choice
        # ======================
        # Use 'gdm-shell' for the GNOME Shell version.
        # Never use anything not starting with 'gdm-'.
        [org.gnome.desktop.session]
        # session-name='gdm-fallback'
        session-name='gdm-shell'

To get the different layout I had to switch the user though. Only then
GDM started up with GNOME Shell and testing the Esc key there worked.

[…]


Thanks,

Paul


> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679132
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