plasma5 lockscreen: impossible to enter password in certain circumstances

coretemp commented 6 years ago

Issue description

When a Plasma5 session is locked (one way in which this happens is via a timeout), and sddm is asking for a password, it does not allow me to input one. Using the laptop's keyboard does not work in this interface, neither does using the virtual keyboard available in this interface, an external keyboard, plugging back in the external keyboard. The keyboard is working, because switching to another vtty via a keyboard shortcut does work.

Steps to reproduce

Unknown, but closing the lid seems to be related. The machine did not go into sleep mode.

I did not modify the default for this service.

Extra information

Apparently this has been broken for almost two years: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/sddm-password-field-wont-accept-any-input/6114

Can someone recommend a display manager in which the basics work reliably?

Technical details

system: "x86_64-linux"
host os: Linux 4.14.47, NixOS, 18.03.git.03ba84e (Impala)
multi-user?: yes
sandbox: no
version: nix-env (Nix) 2.0.2
nixpkgs: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/03ba84eb56559d23031261a9fb744cbf9f7062c3

bkchr commented 6 years ago

Did you report the bug upstream?

coretemp commented 6 years ago

No

coretemp commented 6 years ago

I switched to lightdm, but the lockscreen looks exactly the same, so I think it's just a plasma thing, if that also has a virtual keyboard.

aanderse commented 5 years ago

@coretemp still the case on 18.09?

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