[arch-general] Question about pacman and installing Gnome

Ionuț Bîru ibiru at archlinux.org
Mon Oct 4 12:54:38 EDT 2010


On 10/04/2010 07:51 PM, Guillaume ALAUX wrote:
> 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.

note that you need to install additionally packages for orca:

espeak, festival

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