On Sun 04 Oct 2020 at 14:59:18 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 01:36:45PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Sun 04 Oct 2020 at 12:14:01 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > > Just a silly shot in the dark: are you sure it isn't taking keypresses? > > > Note that xdm doesn't display anything when you type into a password > > > box. No dots, no stars, anything. Good old tradition... > > > > The tradition allows for configuring xdm to show stars when the password > > is typed. > > That's right, but it's not the default. My advice was just for the > case that the OP wasn't "seeing" that things might be working as > intended.
Indeed it's not the default. My advice was for those users of xdm who would like some visual feedback when authenticating. -- Brian.
