Public bug reported:
When I walk away from my computer and come back to it with my monitors
black, I hit the space bar (or enter key, or whatever I feel like
hitting). Hitting a key gets the computer to send output to the
monitors, and the monitors to wake up (takes 2-5 seconds). However, the
lock screen is already focused on the password (listening to the
keystrokes), therefore, I just added an extra character to make my
password wrong when I hit enter. This makes me (and I'm sure other
people too) resort to typing in my password right away (before I see the
monitor output).
I imagine that someone who wanted to get someone's password would make
the screen go black or disconnect the monitor so when the user
physically returns, they type their password into a program the records
their keystrokes.
Having a panel option available (similar to what Windows 10 is like)
that hides the login credential input would help. There could be a panel
that has the weather, time, a nice picture, maybe show some app
notifications, just as long as the panel hides the password input. Then,
after the user hits the first key, the "Hide Panel" would go away and
they could start typing in their password after that. This is so that
the user can sit down and type in their password correct the first time,
and without assuming their typing their password in the right place.
A little bit similar to Bug #1292695
** Affects: unity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
Password lock screen should have a wait screen
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