Personally I press Ctrl
Shift, Escape and mouse wiggle, in that order.
The power button. I’ve disabled usb-wake because my wireless mouse keeps waking up my computer
Same problem, now I just flip it upside down when not in use.
I smash the arrow keys like I’m playing a synthesizer.
Wait, there are people that don’t press Ctrl?
You mean num lock, right? Ctrl actually does something.
What does ctrl do on its own?
Esc like 3-5 times (to also prompt the login input) or mouse wiggle
Any key
I can’t find it on my keyboard 😉
ctrl is the only correct choice obviously. it’s the only key that does nothing by itself and it’s positioned at a corner so it’s hard to mistype
Whatever method gets the job done is fine but this is the most correct answer.
Escape is kinda hardcoded as a safe button in my headspace and spacebar is just fun to press.
Space. On my mechanical keyboard it makes a nice thunk. You really know you’ve pressed it.
Esc also removes anything typed into swaylock so esc
I slap the spacebar, often multiple times if I’m impatient
Depends the OS.
Windows its Space
On Linux shift since space will fill in the password field with spaces
In the first second I was taken aback by such a silly decision from the designers’ part, but then I realised it was actually a cool idea; you don’t have to wake up your computer. You just start typing immediately. How cool is that?
… Also, why the heck do you need to start with shift then? : )
Because years ago I made my PC password with Capslock on since a warning would show.
So genius 13 year old me said, “hey even if someone knew my password, they’d never know how it was inputted.”
So my actual wake key is capslock.
Only my PC uses this old password method now, everything else is passphrase+uniquekey
Like google+lemmyworld
My desktop pc doesn’t wake up from keyboard inputs, so the power button. On my laptop I just open the lid.
It doesn’t? It should, you might want to check your settings
I mean, I’m fine with it, since it means no accidental keyboard presses. It might have something to do with the USB receiver being powered off, so the keyboard might try to enter some kind of “pairing mode”
If you mean actual sleep, as in S3 sleep, that would be the power button as I disable waking from sleep from anything else as I don’t like the PC waking up from accidental keyboard key presses or mouse movements.
If you mean when the monitor goes to sleep, it’s the shift key that I mash. Yes, that means on Windows I always have to disable that stupid shortcut to enable StickyKeys.
My machine is dual boot and boots so fast I don’t sleep it. If booting to linux, after login it resumes my previous session exactly as it was anyway. No point sleeping it to me.
I don’t sleep my computer because I have more ram than is advisable to have if you are going to fully sleep the computer.
