GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 776372
Fedora 25: keys typed at the login/lock screen are entered into the password field before it's visible
Last modified: 2016-12-22 15:21:30 UTC
Fedora 25, GNOME 3.22, Wayland, gdm-3.22.1 When on the lock screen, tapping keys on the keyboard (instead of swiping up) to get to the password field results in the keys you typed having been entered into the password field once it becomes available. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Fedora 25 on a laptop 2. Log in 3. Somehow get to the lock screen (Close the lid, wait for it to go to sleep, etc) 4. Be looking at the lock screen and desire to get to the password field so you can log in 5. Hit some keys on the keyboard to make it go away and show the password field Actual results: The keys you tapped are entered in the password text field. Expected results: Any keystrokes resulting from banging on the keyboard to get from the lock screen to the password field should get eaten and not count toward entering your password.
this is actually by design (and took some contortions to implement!). Users requested the ability to type their password without first explicitly raising the shield. Certain keys won't get passed through: space, return, escape, arrows (things like that)
Oh okay. Seems like a really inelegant solution though. Why not just put the password prompt on the lock screen, so you don't need to dismiss the shield to get there?