Screenlock password input too slow

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The screenlocker has a significant delay until I can enter my password.

If I generally type too fast some characters will not be recognized.

As a result I press shift to wait until the overlay with the pw field comes up, and then I need to type PW at less than half my typing speed to get it to input correctly.

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For the first part - having to wait before XScreenSaver brings up the password prompt and starts registering your key presses, I think Iambchop’s answer in this thread is relevant:

As for having to write your password slower - I don’t know.

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I always enter the password slowly, cause when typing normal it is wrong every time… The first prompt (encryption password) doesn’t have this problem…

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Is the XScreensaver dev in here?

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Some troubleshooting ideas about why you might need to type you password showly:

  • If you type it quickly, are there missing characters (less asterisks in the password prompt) before you hit enter, or do you think they somehow become different characters?
  • What if you type it quickly, but only after you’ve made sure the first character has been recorded (you see an asterisk)?
  • Same as before, but what if you wait a bit before pressing enter?
  • Could it be related to pressing shift+ somehow? What if you set you password to only lowercase letters and numbers?
  • What if you only set your password to numbers or to specific characters from a limiter set (like just ‘abbaabbaabba’ or ‘123123123’)?

I don’t think there’s a way to see what the wrong password attempts were after you’ve logged in. For example, showing ‘passwor12356’ instead of ‘password123456’.

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Just logged out a few times an entered password as fast as I can, worked every time… Maybe the problem is only after boot when hardware is busy… Have to check this, maybe I let the dialog sit for some minutes after boot and try then… I don’t think chracters are modified but skipped, like computer is not fast enough to process…

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Yes they are skipped.

Does not happen on workstation. Only on laptop.
Maybe resource things.

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I also get slowness to register my keypresses too. I just type it slower now.

It’s not a typo, I am well practiced at typing it. I’ve even noticed some of the ‘asterisks’ not inputting when typing keyboard keys fast.

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Thanks @adw, I’ll try implement that and test typing my passwords at full speed again to see if that fixes it.

I note that there are already people in those GitHub issues who have made the suggested changes, but the problem has not been resolved.

I suspect I might be in the same category. If only because it appears to be a keyboard input delay, when multiple keyboard keys are pressed in quick succession to each other. But I’ll make some changes and see if I can still reproduce it.

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