x11.en.xml: possible improvement?

Michèle Garoche <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.i18n
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In x11.en.xml, section run-xfree86, latest paragraph (the note), it is 
stated:

Note: If you're running Mac OS X, you can type <code>>console</code>
at the login window

Problem is, user does not have always direct access to a field where he 
can type: >console.

I'm not completely sure, but I think by default, when the user first 
installs Panther, he gets a new admin user with automatic login.

Then he can have changed automatic login to choose list of users 
instead of name and password, then he has no direct access to this 
field. Well, he can use others (but he must know, he can use it, which 
is not obvious from searching in Mac help); but if he disabled netinfo 
in directoryaccess, that user does not appear. (this one I'm sure).

In both cases, he has not direct access to the mandatory field to enter 
 >console.

One way to enable it without going in system preferences is just to 
type the first letter of a user's name (which highlights the user's 
name in list) and then option-return. That gives him the mandatory 
field to type >console.

Unfortunately, I cannot test it in case of a unique user with automatic 
login. But it works with several users and automatic login too. 
Therefore I'll guess, it's the same in case of a unique user.

Just so that the user would not be confused and does not begin to 
change all his accounts preferences adventurously, would it be possible 
to add to this note:

In case you don't see a field to enter a user's name in the login 
window, just type the first letter of whichever user's name, following 
by option-return.

Michèle
<http://micmacfr.homeunix.org>
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