I think it's important for the developer to consider some aspects of this bug separately.
1. Wifi auth window pops up and steals focus before user is logged in. It is frustrating to begin typing my password and to have my keyboard focus swiped away so my hidden password is now hopelessly split across two different windows. 2. Wifi auth window _keeps_ focus from the Ubuntu login window until it is dismissed. I think the first one is an annoying bug, but it might be easy to dismiss as "medium". But the second one is sometimes serious or critical. Consider that the login prompt appears on the display where the mouse appears. On a multi-monitor setup, this is critical because some monitors may not be usable yet. If I can't see my login screen, I have learned that I can just move my mouse so it is on the primary display and the login prompt will appear. But the WiFi password window does not have this logic. When it steals focus from the login prompt, I can move the mouse all I want, and the login prompt will appear or disappear from my primary display. But until I cancel the wifi popup window, I cannot type my password to login. If the wifi popup appeared on some unusable monitor, I cannot see the window to dismiss it. In my case my 2nd monitor is in portrait orientation so my display properties have it rotated. But this rotation does not take effect until after I log in. So when I get the popup window, my mouse on the 2nd display is rotated 90 degrees and the popup is quite difficult to dismiss. I can imagine this is a serious accessibility issue for users who have other challenges seeing their display or using a mouse or keyboard as efficiently as you do. Please fix this. It has been with us for so long. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1158432 Title: On graphical login, Network Manager window gets in the way Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: New in 13.04, on a laptop with wifi (in addition to being wired), when the login gui comes up on boot-up, I can no longer simply type in my password to log in. This is because a wifi authentication window pops up, asking for a password for my wifi connection. Worse, it does not let me get the focus back to the log in screen or anywhere else: I have to explicitly click "cancel ". After I log in, the wifi password is not needed, since the Manager has stored it and connects automatically, using its stored password. It may be nice to be able to access the network before logging in, but that option should not interrupt my log-in process, and certainly not block it! Moreover, given that my machine is also connected to wired ethernet (by DHCP, no password), it is hardly a high priority to get wifi going. This problem exists on both of my laptops (very different hardware). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: network-manager 0.9.8.0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-13.23-generic 3.8.3 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-13-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Mar 21 13:47:50 2013 IfupdownConfig: # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8) auto lo iface lo inet loopback InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-18 (2 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130318) IpRoute: default via 132.206.112.1 dev eth0 proto static 132.206.112.0/26 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 132.206.112.10 metric 1 142.157.168.0/23 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 142.157.168.8 metric 9 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000 MarkForUpload: True NetworkManager.state: [main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=true WimaxEnabled=true SourcePackage: network-manager UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) mtime.conffile..etc.NetworkManager.NetworkManager.conf: 2013-03-19T18:52:07.457464 nmcli-con: NAME UUID TYPE TIMESTAMP TIMESTAMP-REAL AUTOCONNECT READONLY DBUS-PATH IHSP 3985ff88-5770-4938-8133-23b8ded92641 802-3-ethernet 1363888105 Thu 21 Mar 2013 01:48:25 PM EDT yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/2 DHCP aec2f3e7-cdaa-46ff-b51d-401084613817 802-3-ethernet 0 never no no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/1 wpa.mcgill.ca 4ce783b2-6946-417e-ac7c-eb6984d01f15 802-11-wireless 1363888105 Thu 21 Mar 2013 01:48:25 PM EDT yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/0 nmcli-dev: DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH wlan0 802-11-wireless connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1 eth0 802-3-ethernet connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0 nmcli-nm: RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN running 0.9.8.0 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled disabled To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1158432/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp