Personally I press Ctrl
I shake the mouse then start entering my login before the screen turns on, works 50% of the time.
Space key. That way it won’t accidentally enter an actual letter or command that could be passed to the current active application.
That’s not really much of a problem anymore these days (serious issue in WinXP era), but it’s still the safe key, so I use it.
Space bar is “accept” in many interfaces. If the screen was off but not locked, and a dialog box was focused, hitting space will submit that in some OS.
Control, on the other hand, won’t.
I always wake up with space and I have had that problem once. That was on a PC that was installing using PXE.
Otherwise my PC is pretty much always locked if the screen has gone to sleep.
I thump my water bottle down on the desk just hard enough to make my mouse trigger and wake up the PC. By the time I’m sat comfortably it’s awaiting a password :]
Control and alt .Bonus: To move to the bottom of a terminal, I have it set to scroll to bottom on input and hit backspace.
I hit the “wake on lan” icon on my phone, since my computer is in a different room from my monitor and the usb doesn’t work for waking it up directly. But if I could, left ctrl all day!
Idk how anyone does anything else. It’s in the corner, easy to hit…. It’s basically only a modifier key, so it will do nothing but wake the computer.
I don’t want to type a space, or accidentally close something.
It’s in the corner
Angry ThinkPad noises
Swap the keys in the bios
I honestly just kind of flop my hand around on the keyboard
I use a macbook for work, so I lightly tap the power button and touchID unlocks it.
Right arrow. Wake on mouse disabled because cats. Right arrow is on the bottom right corner and convenient to hit when pulling the keyboard tray out.
I always hit an arrow key. Just in case it’s not actually asleep but just turned off the display, and I don’t want to accidentally start typing into something without seeing the screen yet. It’s like, 99% unsubstantiated paranoia, admittedly.
Shift.
They’re big enough I don’t have to aim. They’re located on both edges (at least on TKL). They do nothing on their own.
Yeah I really expected this to be the vast majority of answers, it just makes the most sense. Ctrl is too small and space will type a space into my password box that I’ll have to delete before I can unlock my screen
Control is easier for me to hit because it’s the corner of the keyboard.
I hit Shift+Ctrl 3 times. Its easy enough and the pattern works on my desktops and laptops so I only have to remember one behavior to wake up all my devices
Does that still do the sticky keys thing on windows? We used to turn that on so it would make noises in like high school, because we were a bunch of gremlins.
Lawful Neutral, ctrl.
If there is a pin set, decimal on the numpad, else Ctrl or ESC.
I mash the keyboard. It wakes.
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sfg [waggle mouse] qqwthr
Cursor-right.
It’s least likely to mess up your command line, won’t trigger an action, and easy to find blind.
