Bug 598994 - keyboard navigation on gdm
Summary: keyboard navigation on gdm
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gdm
Version: 13
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: jmccann
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-06-02 13:57 UTC by Henrique Martins
Modified: 2015-01-14 23:25 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-06-02 18:01:14 UTC
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Description Henrique Martins 2010-06-02 13:57:30 UTC
Description of problem:
I understand this is probably an upstream problem with gnome, but why do we have all those nice accessability features available in simple-greeter, when one can't do much with the keyboard during the same?

Case in point: how do I change the language, session, and, more importantly, how do I access the suspend/restart/shutdown options of simple-greeter, only using the keyboard?  If it's possible by some combination of Alt-something or Tab-something, it's really well hidden and unaccessible.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
All from current going back at least a year or so

How reproducible:
N/A

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to restart a system from the simple-greeter screen using only the keyboard
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Actual results:
Seems to be an impossible task

Expected results:
Ought to be possible.

Additional info:
I know, I can, and usually do, Ctl-Alt-Fx and do it from the console.  I know, I can use the mouse, most of the times, but it ought to be possible.

Comment 1 Tajidin Abdullah 2010-07-07 11:04:01 UTC
This bug has been triaged



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Comment 3 Henrique Martins 2011-06-02 18:01:14 UTC
Seems like on F15, CTL-ALT-TAB then F10 does the job (just a little bit obscure).  It could even be that F10 does it by itself (will try later) so this is just a matter of finding the documentation.  Close the bug.


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