They finally got rid of the "you have to scroll the screen all the way up from the bottom" to get out of the lock screen.
Now it says click or hit any key.
If you hit a key, it does get you out of the lock screen, but that key also winds up being passed to the password entry field as the first character of your password, so then you type your actual password and get a login error :-).
Stick to clicking.
On 4/30/20 2:50 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
They finally got rid of the "you have to scroll the screen all the way up from the bottom" to get out of the lock screen.
Now it says click or hit any key.
If you hit a key, it does get you out of the lock screen, but that key also winds up being passed to the password entry field as the first character of your password, so then you type your actual password and get a login error :-).
Stick to clicking.
I guess the message is a new thing, but it's worked like that for a long time. You can either press the ESC key to scroll it up or just start typing your password. I've only had to drag it up a couple of times when something wasn't working.
On Thu, 2020-04-30 at 17:50 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
Now it says click or hit any key.
If you hit a key, it does get you out of the lock screen, but that key also winds up being passed to the password entry field as the first character of your password, so then you type your actual password and get a login error :-).
Long ago I decided that the only "any" key to safely nudge a computer without inputing any characters, was to tap the shift key. It tends to produce the least surprises.
Tom Horsley wrote:
They finally got rid of the "you have to scroll the screen all the way up from the bottom" to get out of the lock screen.
Now it says click or hit any key.
If you hit a key, it does get you out of the lock screen, but that key also winds up being passed to the password entry field as the first character of your password, so then you type your actual password and get a login error :-).
Stick to clicking.
Or just type your password, which causes the lock screen to go away and the password input to be filled in. Having to manually do anything first is more of an annoyance to me.
Having been subjected to some Windows 10 systems, the need to hit a key to get to the password dialog and then typing my password has caused me the opposite issue far more often.
Muscle memory is different for everyone though.
As Samuel mentioned, it's worked this way for quite a long time. The added text hint is the new(-ish) part.
On Sat, 2020-05-02 at 11:50 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
Or just type your password, which causes the lock screen to go away and the password input to be filled in. Having to manually do anything first is more of an annoyance to me.
I would temper that advice with a bit of caution, *start* typing your password. Be sure not to hit enter before you see something to show that you're typing your password into a password box.
If a system has crashed, you could be typing your password into a "enter username" box. Your password is now logged in the last users log.
On 5/2/20 9:47 PM, Tim via users wrote:
On Sat, 2020-05-02 at 11:50 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
Or just type your password, which causes the lock screen to go away and the password input to be filled in. Having to manually do anything first is more of an annoyance to me.
I would temper that advice with a bit of caution, *start* typing your password. Be sure not to hit enter before you see something to show that you're typing your password into a password box.
If a system has crashed, you could be typing your password into a "enter username" box. Your password is now logged in the last users log.
Or if the screen is just blanked and not locked yet, although in that case it *doesn't* lift the shield unless you press ESC or use the mouse. (The keys are just ignored.) But that's a good point and something I do follow. I never hit enter until I see the password box.
Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/2/20 9:47 PM, Tim via users wrote:
On Sat, 2020-05-02 at 11:50 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
Or just type your password, which causes the lock screen to go away and the password input to be filled in. Having to manually do anything first is more of an annoyance to me.
I would temper that advice with a bit of caution, *start* typing your password. Be sure not to hit enter before you see something to show that you're typing your password into a password box.
If a system has crashed, you could be typing your password into a "enter username" box. Your password is now logged in the last users log.
Or if the screen is just blanked and not locked yet, although in that case it *doesn't* lift the shield unless you press ESC or use the mouse. (The keys are just ignored.) But that's a good point and something I do follow. I never hit enter until I see the password box.
Same here. I was only intending to cover the part about how to get the lock screen to disappear, but it's absolutely a good thing to clarify that you don't want to complete the whole process and hit enter without ensuring you're sending the text to the passphrase field of the unlock dialog.
Thanks for mentioning and expanding on that important detail in the overall process Tim and Samuel!
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