On 10/29/19, Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> wrote: > Hello, > > dhof...@att.net, le mar. 22 oct. 2019 10:29:54 -0700, a ecrit: >> At the prompt to enter your Wifi server password, if you enter an >> incorrect password and try to correct it with the backspace key, it always >> results in an error. > > I am not able to reproduce this issue. I tried both the textual > installer and the speech-enabled installer, in both cases even if I set > a bogus password, I can enter a new password. > > One thing that you might have missed is that when the installer realizes > that the password doesn't work, it does not prompt for the password, but > it first asks for typing the ESSID, then the password. Perhaps you are > trying to enter the password at the ESSID prompt?
He said something about using "backspace". Is there any chance that it's also maybe either kicking things backward one screen or at least backward into a different text field? It comes to mind to ask that because I've had both instances very annoyingly occur myself. Sometimes a backspace action never leaves the current text field (yay!). BUT sometimes it causes a browser to revert to the last previous webpage visited on the same tab, and sometimes it moves the cursor to the last previously accessed text field. If we're talking about an installer that has the very barest minimum of anything in operation due to the very nature of its job, that might up the chance of those kinds of things happening, too. Not a whole lot of sweat-and-tear-stained programming is in place yet to better prevent those kinds of effects. Rereading what I just wrote is causing me to think I've even had backspace repeatedly jump ship over to a completely different tab *in web browsers*. Also speaking FIRSTHAND while considering what might cause any of those to happen: Sometimes a sticky CTRL or ALT key will mangle things up when a glitch is occurring for one user while no one else can reproduce the same issue. Speaking firsthand... *grin* PS An example of minimal programs in play that comes to mind that is about booting up instead of installing is that unbelievably fast key repeat rate that's out there. I think I mentioned it as a potential cognitive or mobility related accessibility point on here quite a while back, even. Man, that nails me ALL THE TIME when I'm having any kind of boot up issues. Switching over to a one finger hunt-and-peck typing style mitigates that one, LOL! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *
