[arch-general] Question about pacman and installing Gnome

[Guillaume ALAUX]

On 4 October 2010 18:47, Christian <christian08 at runbox.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> On 2010-10-04 at 18:42 Guillaume ALAUX wrote:
>
>>On 4 October 2010 18:37, Christian <christian08 at runbox.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2010-10-04 at 18:29 Jan de Groot wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 17:15 +0200, Christian wrote:
>>>>> I wait for about 30 seconds before I login as my user but nothing
>>>>> happens when I press enter after I have entered my password.
>>>>
>>>>gdm has this annoying change since 2.32 where it requires a mouse click
>>>>on the username to select it for login. With previous versions you could
>>>>just hit enter to select the one and only user in the list and enter
>>>>your password after that.
>>>
>>> And you cannot press tab or anything else to select?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>> And you cannot press tab or anything else to select?
>>Yes ! It seems TAB + ENTER does the trick.
>
> OK, so then you just enter your password after you have hit enter that time and then you are logged in?
>
>

When gdm is up, press TAB, ENTER. If you have only one user then it is
selected and waits for your password. So then password + ENTER and you
should be done.