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Bug 127339 - Tab should act like Enter in when entering Login name.
Tab should act like Enter in when entering Login name.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.4.4.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-11-18 22:17 UTC by Behdad Esfahbod
Modified: 2005-04-13 00:14 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Behdad Esfahbod 2003-11-18 22:17:51 UTC 
It's quite desirable that when you wrongly press Tab after entering your
userid,
then you would be prompted with Password: instead of having to remove the Tab
and press Enter.  ximian already does that.
Comment 1 George Lebl 2004-01-15 20:50:37 UTC 
And it's semi screwed up.  The way Ximian does things it will only
work 100% for setups that have the standard PAM setup.  You never know
what PAM can ask you so you shouldn't assume anything.  And I don't
want to do it differently for different prompts.  Enter works for both
login name and password.  Dunno.  Keeping as NEW.
Comment 2 Behdad Esfahbod 2004-01-18 09:24:18 UTC 
Ok.  I see your reason.  Just one way I can see:  Let Tab act like
Enter if pam has asked us to read a non-password line, ie, with echo
on.  I cannot find a scenario that you really need a Tab character in
something other than a password.

If you do not like to do this, feel free to close the bug.
Comment 3 Brian Cameron 2005-04-13 00:11:29 UTC 
Fixed in CVS head.
Comment 4 Behdad Esfahbod 2005-04-13 00:14:38 UTC 
Very nice.  Thanks.