[Splashy-users] splashy_update "getpass ... "

[John Hughes]

Heiko Groß wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm building a  bootable readonly usb-stick and would like to interact 
> with the splashy-server. By now everthing works except I have to press 
> F2 in order to switch to verbose mode (where the texbox is shown) and 
> only then I get my prompts (splashy_update "getpass ... " and 
> splashy_update "getstring ... ").
> What do I have to do to skip that pressing of F2? It has to be 
> user-friendly.
> I already tried to emulate the press in a shell-command, but this did 
> not succeed. Do I have to install splashy from source?
> I'm using debian lenny and the aptitude-packages.
>
>   
splashy: getpass/getstring don't work
<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=473101>:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=473101