I came across the fix for this by accident. When you get the dialog othentication has no windows. Push vo keys shift and the space bar. That is the mouse down click, and it will land you in the password field.
-----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Erkens Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 11:30 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: mac mini Dear listers, After laying my hands on mac mini, I'm running into some problems. I went through the initial setup assistant, chose my language, filled in my Apple ID, etc etc. Everything went just fine. I turned off bluetooth because I'm not going to need a mouse or a trackpad. All was fine and I shut down the mini. A few hours later I came back and booted. VoiceOver support comes when I hit command f5, but I can change that later on, so that VO comes on even at log on. But what happens now is, that I boot, and then try to click my user name and enter my password, but at that time, a dialog pops up, saying the mini is looking for a keyboard or mouse via bluetooth. I have a usb keyboard though, and no mouse. This dialog states that I can get rid of it, i.e. stop the mini from looking for a mouse or trackpad, simply by hitting command q. Hit command q if you don't have a trackpad or wireless mouse it says. But when I do that, I am not returned to the dialog where I can enter my username and password for log on. Instead, I land in a window where it says: authentication has no windows. From here, I can indeed turn on or off voiceover, but there is no way to enter my log on account info to go on. I tried vo f1 twice, but it dings at me, instead of telling me how many apps are open. Maybe, you can only use vo f1 f1 from the desktop, or from one of its children I suppose. So what do I do now? Can I still log in? Is there any way to get around this issue, or did I just screw up the device, and do I need to completely reinstall it using a usb key with mountain lion on it? That is no problem at all, but it takes time I'd rather use for more productive things than reinstalling a new device. Did any of you exprerience this situation? How did you all get around this problem? Was it stupidity not to get a wireless mouse or magic pad? Kind regards, Paul. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
