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[Condon Thomas A KPWA]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David A. Bandel [mailto:david at pananix.com]
> I've been logging into UNIX boxes for over 15 years.  It's 
> always been:
> username<Enter>
> password<Enter>

So, you meant the "command line" interface, instead of the "GUI" interface.
Well of course, that is Username<enter>Password<enter>,
but it also requires strict command line activities.  When you said it was a
pop-up from a browser window I thought we were talking GUI.

> When you log into your box (VT or XDM/KDM/GDM/WDM), after you 
> enter your
> username do you really hit <Tab>????????????????????  And it
> works?????????????????????

If I'm logging into the X system, which I usually am, it works just fine.  I
wouldn't use <tab> at a command line prompt, though.  OK, I don't do it on
purpose.  Sometimes I do it out of habit...

> Anyway, the question was, how to fix the configuration, not 
> that I'm old
> and futzed.

The problem is that if you use <enter> to switch from data-entry box to
data-entry box within the form then you must use something else to submit
the filled out form.  Programming anything other than <enter> to submit the
form is not just counter intuitive, it is anathema.  It violates too many
GUI conventions.

Now, what we *really* need is a "Do what I mean, not what I typed" key!
That would solve the entire problem.

I suspect that the next major advance in computer interfaces is going to be
in voice recognition software that will consistently and correctly recognize
data input verbally, complete with verbal commands to activate special
functions.  Of course, it may not accept a pressed <enter> key, then.  ;-}>


In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord,

Tom  :-})

Thomas A. Condon
Barbershop Bass Singer
Registered Linux User #154358
A Jester Unemployed