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Re: Xlogin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Nov 13 14:59:39 1990
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 90 14:59:10 -0500
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: akagerry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [1120]
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
>1) I'm on a VS2000 and when ever I select the "shutdown window system"
>option, it shutdown X and puts up a login prompt, but I can't type at
>it. The really weird thing is if I type <RETURN> I get the password
>prompt, but it doesn't seem to be recognizing any other keyboard
>characters. To test this I very carefully typed "root" at the login
I ran into this problem on burn.mit.edu as well; however, I also noticed
that the 'm' (as in mrroot) functioned as return as well. This gave me
the clue to figure it out; if you toggle the control key once or twice,
the keyboard starts responding again. Apparently all of the keys were
being interpreted as if the control key was down.
- Ted
