Annoying mouse-click for Karmic login? No.

As someone who has used the old-style Ubuntu login window for some time (the one in which you type your username, hit enter, type your password, and hit enter again), I was initially taken aback by the login window in Karmic.

It did not bother me enough to want to make any changes to my system, but I did not like what I thought was the need to click on my name with the mouse prior to typing in my password. The fact is, however, that you probably don’t need to do this.

My account is the only one that shows up on the screen, and so I can hit the Enter key or the Space bar once it appears, and then it’ll take me to the password-entry box. This means that I don’t need to use the mouse at all to log in.

But what, you might ask, if there are two or more accounts on a computer? I don’t know the answer to that. I’m imagining that you can still do it all through the keyboard by cycling up and down the list with the arrow keys until you reach the username you want, hitting the Enter key or Space bar and entering your password.

If this all seems rather obvious, it wasn’t something that occurred to me prior to last week.