Right, this is an interesting bug to resolve! Depending on the width of the login box there's a limit on how many characters we can display in the name field. Thus, some sort of truncation and/or abbreviation mechanism is needed.
Chris, how would you prefer your name to be treated in such case? I can think of three ways to begin with: Christopher James Hals… Christopher Jam… Rogers Christopher J H Rogers (limit here being 23 chars) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/827713 Title: Handles long names poorly To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/+bug/827713/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
