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.

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.

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.