Hi, One of my most favoritest of Lists :) This is me... trying to make a glass half full day out of having just lost two large windows full of Internet travels via Chromium. In the process of attempting to recover those windows, I chose to reboot a time or two to clear things out. Being frustrated, I wasn't precise so my Fingertip keyboariding was sloppy. That's when I hit a repeatedly encountered error for which I've only just recently realized one cause(y)....
The error I encountered was the one that I've seen lamented a few times here on the list. It's about constant log on password fail when we KNOW FOR FACT the caps lock key is NOT on and we KNOW FOR FACT the password we're typing is EXACTLY WHAT IT SHOULD... It turns out that the error SOMETIMES is about dragging our Fingertips for a split extra nano-second when we don't realize we're doing so. The reason we never discover that particular error is because our password entries are hidden from sight by security design. My accidental discovery of this particular error fix is BECAUSE.... I personally next do the same, meaning drag my own Fingertips a split extra nano-second too long, when I'm then typing in the next *visually viewable* command (in tty1). For my personal #Debian use, that command is: startx. Occasionally THAT command will additionally fail because I've just typed in "staartx" or "starrtx" instead.... even though I actually did NOT type that in on purpose. What it's *most likely* about is something to do with the most default, universal of settings *potentially* defined at the top of the whole login process default order. If it's not consciously defined by developers as a default, then it's something innate within our systems. The setting that would potentially have an effect in this case MIGHT be something like keyboard behavior affecting the single key double-click time span. That type of setting affects our ability to repeat a bunch of the same single characters rapidly and all at once... or not. After we each actually enter our chosen desktop environments, that type of user definable custom setting is then found under something fairly universal like Applications > Settings > Mouse and Touchpad.. *BUT*....those settings do NOT take effect until our individual users *successfully* sign in to the desktop GUI k/t our chosen passwords..... that occasionally inexplicably do not work regardless of all the bazillions of helpful tips found everywhere across the entire Internet.... Occasionally those password fails boil down to minute keyboard click drag... and that's why the password then just as mysteriously and suddenly begins to work again... That sudden, mysterious success is occasionally because, under those circumstances, we have a tendency to drop down to the elementary level of one finger hunt-and-peck. Our keyboard clicks become a more meticulous poke-poke-poke that tends to eliminate the causative keyboard drag in the process. Just thinking out loud... Wishing everyone out there a likewise glass half full kind of day.. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs... in circles more often than she used to.. *
