Bug 146155

Summary:	kdm not respecting 'Sort users' option in Etch RC2
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdm	Reporter:	Olivier Vitrat <ovit.debian>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdm bugs tracker <kdm-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian stable
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Olivier Vitrat 2007-05-30 15:46:35 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    Debian stable Packages

Reported in Debian BTS at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=416306

If you go into KDE's control centre --> System Admin --> Login Manager:
click the 'Users' tab and turn on 'Sort Users' for the KDM graphical 
login, this will configure the alphabetical sort of users in the KDM 
login list.

On a rather vanilla install of Etch RC2, KDM doesn't appear to be 
respecting this setting, placing the user 'sheridan' before 'root'.

No amount of setting manipulation makes an impact in the KDM config 
file.  In fact, I copied the config file over to my Etch desktop (which 
is a 7 month old upgrade from Sarge) the same version of KDM respects 
this and sorts the list so 'root' comes before 'sheridan'

I checked the passwd files in case that KDM wasn't looking at this 
setting at all, however, in both files the root entry comes before the 
'sheridan' user entry.

Comment 1 Olivier Vitrat 2007-06-05 16:55:58 UTC

Hi,

I can confirm that as of lenny today with all the available updates, 
this now works.  Given the amount of packages that just came through 
it's difficult to know why this suddenly works, we can just be thankful 
that it does :)

I think this bug could be closed now.

-- 
Regards,
Sheridan Hutchinson
Sheridan@Shezza.org