https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=862961 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=862961#c2 --- Comment #2 from Bill Dimm <bdimm@hotneuron.com> 2014-02-13 19:32:02 UTC --- The OS is apparently choosing, for whatever reason, to drive the external monitor at 1600x900 (the native resolution of the laptop screen). The password prompt is apparently trying to render the screen at 1920x1080 (the native resolution of the external monitor), meaning that part or all of the password prompt is rendered outside of the area that the OS is actually providing for rendering. How is it *not* a bug to render a screen at a resolution different from what the OS is providing? Furthermore, this is a usability disaster. I'm running a fresh OpenSUSE 12.3 install. It is not doing this because I messed up the configuration -- this is how it behaves out of the box, at least on my hardware. I boot the machine and, depending on the resolution of the external monitor, I may not see the password prompt at all, just a blank screen with a SUSE logo. How is the user supposed to know when the system is waiting for a password if they can't see the prompt? I don't really care whether it happens because the prompting command is getting the screen resolution from the wrong place, or whether it happens because Xorg is lying to the prompting command about the screen resolution -- it is not working the way it should. It is not usable the way it is. It is a bug. Putting all of the arguing about the screen resolution aside, this would not be a significant problem for most people if the password prompt was positioned at the center of the screen, rather than along the bottom edge, as I suggested in the first place. Is there any benefit at all to putting the prompt along the bottom edge, where there is a risk that it will be invisible if anything goes wrong, rather than in the center of the screen? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.