On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 12:06:46 +0100 Martti Kühne <mysatyre@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Ralf Mardorf > <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 11:58:17 +0100 > > Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 11:47:46 +0100 > >> Martti Kühne <mysatyre@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > Using y, z and special characters in all my passwords, thanks for > >> > making Frank look bad here. > >> > >> I didn't, I use special character for my password and run into the > >> same issue several times. > > > > IOW I don't recommend to change the password, I recommend to change > > the display manager ;). > > > You're not making it better by suggesting to install pulseaudio. > Are you Lennart's long lost little brother? My apologies, I didn't think about that. [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi pulseaudio Name : pulseaudio Version : 2013.08.18-1 Description : Dummy package [snip] I don't care if a package has got a hard dependency to PA or if not. Since the OP is using GDM, I suspect he anyway has got a hard dependency to PA, unless he isn't using [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi gnome-settings-daemon-nopulse Name : gnome-settings-daemon-nopulse Version : 3.14.1-1 Description : The GNOME Settings daemon without PulseAudio [snip] [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Si gdm [snip] Depends On : gnome-shell [snip] [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Si gnome-shell [snip] Depends On : [snip] gnome-settings-daemon [snip] Regards, Ralf