lightdm shutdown opens a window without focus

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/986289

Thank you for your bug report, what greeter do you use? the gtk one or the unity one?

The unity one. I am still to check on the GTK one.

Actually, I would say both -- the description states lightdm-gtk-greeter is installed (so this was the environment I checked), and I just repeated it under the unity greeter.

I'm fairly sure that fixing this will also fix this one:

#933990 Unable to confirm shutdown using only keyboard

Since that dialog is tab-able in normal unity, I think it has problems due to focus.

I backported the latest focus handling code from upstream and uploaded it as unity-greeter 0.2.8-0ubuntu1.3 in precise-proposed.

Hello C, or anyone else affected,

Accepted unity-greeter into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/0.2.8-0ubuntu1.3 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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Verified original issue on Precise, and verified I can now move around the options with tabs. Tagging verification-done.

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This bug was fixed in the package unity-greeter - 0.2.8-0ubuntu1.3

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unity-greeter (0.2.8-0ubuntu1.3) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/fix-focus.patch:
    - Backport better keyboard focus handling from upstream as new windows
      appear and disappear. This fixes keyboard navigation in dialogs
      (LP: #986289) and the onboard keyboard not showing up on startup
      if it was enabled before (LP: #1051946)
 -- Michael Terry <email address hidden> Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:47:42 -0400

There is still an underlying issue of "discover-ability" here and it fails, in my view, to be acceptable for a disabled user:

(1) Why does the tab key not cycle to the shutdown menu? Where exactly will a user, faced with the log-in screen, find out that the 'F10' key opens that menu?

(2) The tab key only cycles between the log-in method (e.g. Gnome, Unity, etc, and not the user list) and the entry window for the current account's password. How would a keyboard-only user change account?

OK, I just discovered that the up & down arrow keys cycle the user accounts, but they do not cycle the log-in method! For that you need to use the tab key!

How do you get access to the accessibility drop-down menu on the to bar?

Same for the keyboard/language selection?

Also why no 'F1' for help on any of this? If it were obvious/discoverable using the tab key that would not be needed, but there seems to be a non-obvious mix of methods and some I have not been able to discover yet (as noted above).

Realised this is separate issue so opening new bug for it as #1071728