Bug 28190 - lightdm minor usability issue; menu can set big text but then get unusable to set text back to small...
Summary: lightdm minor usability issue; menu can set big text but then get unusable to...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal minor
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jani Välimaa
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Reported: 2021-01-21 20:21 CET by Morgan Leijström
Modified: 2021-01-23 16:48 CET (History)
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Source RPM: lightdm-gtk-greeter-2.0.8-2.mga8
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Description Morgan Leijström 2021-01-21 20:21:44 CET
Description of problem:
At login screen top right there is a dropdown to select text size.
When text size is big the content in the dropdown is unreadable as only a fraction of one row is visible.  It seems text in dropdown is large, but dropdown height is far too low.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. At login use the dropdown to select big text
2. Now try to select small text using same dropdown

F1/F2 buttons can be used instead, but that information is now hidden in the dropdown...
Comment 1 Lewis Smith 2021-01-21 20:37:13 CET
I shall come back to this, but can you please clear up just which display manager is concerned. The title says 'SDDM', the SRPM says 'light-dm'.

CC: (none) => lewyssmith

Comment 2 Morgan Leijström 2021-01-22 08:14:00 CET
OOPS, thanks
default lightdm, in xfce install

Summary: sddm minor usability issue; menu can set big text but then get unusable to set text back to small... => lightdm minor usability issue; menu can set big text but then get unusable to set text back to small...

Jani Välimaa 2021-01-22 18:02:35 CET

Source RPM: lightdm 1.26.0-14.mga8.src.rpm => lightdm-gtk-greeter-2.0.8-2.mga8

Comment 3 Lewis Smith 2021-01-22 20:19:27 CET
I have been playing. The quirk is really obscure.
If you click the top-right person icon, it drops a tiny menu the first entry of which is 'larger', equated to F1; that is, you can toggle the larger style directly with F1.
Having selected from the menu 'larger', that works. But when you next click the icon, the mini-menu massively overflows its box.
If you click on the top blank bit, nothing happens; but if you then click the icon again, the mini-menu is shown correctly enlarged.
If the first time you guess-scroll and click, you can revert things to normal.
As with F1, of course.
So that makes 3 ways of undoing the once-off quirk:
- F1
- On first icon click, menu overflow, guess where to scroll to & click.
- Click the icon a second time.

It happens with Mageia 7 too.

Assigning to you Jani as the maintainer.

Whiteboard: (none) => MGA7TOO
CC: lewyssmith => (none)
Assignee: bugsquad => jani.valimaa

Comment 4 Jani Välimaa 2021-01-23 16:43:30 CET
Better to report this directly to upstream.

https://github.com/Xubuntu/lightdm-gtk-greeter/issues
Comment 5 Morgan Leijström 2021-01-23 16:48:00 CET
Some of you have account already?

Mysell have decided to cut down on computer time...

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