A simple suggestion

It’s just a simple thing, but when I fire up my system and get the login screen, can you please focus the login text box? I have to drag the mouse from the far right side of the screen and click in the box. All other distros I have used automatically focus the login text box. Like I said it’s just a little thing, but they make software look more polished.

Great job so far.

— Jem

hi, you know you can just start typing your password, right?

you don’t need to click on the text box first.

what distro are you using that doesn’t work that way?

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skyfishgo good question cause most don’t focus on the login box.

@HotShoe:

First, welcome to the KDE Discuss Forums.


Regardless of whether you’re logging into a KDE Plasma session or, unlocking a KDE Plasma session, you normally do not have to select the Password box – simply begin typing.

  • An important exception – a system with multiple users – UNIX® and therefore, Linux also, is a multi-user system … :smiling_imp:

  • For the case of a system with multiple users, you first have to select the user you want to login to – either with the left-right keys ( ← → ) or, with the mouse.
    If, the user you want is already selected then, simply begin typing that user’s password.

  • Ditto for the case of unlocking a user session where several users were logged into the system and the last user on the system locked their session –
    Then, you have to use the mouse to select the user’s session you wish to unlock unless, the session to be unlocked was the last session to be locked.
    Then, you simply begin typing that user’s password … :upside_down_face:


At least for X11, the text above applies.

  • For Wayland → no idea – I haven’t yet changed to using the Wayland display server protocol …

Third party themes may or may not have coded it to automatically focus on the password field - it is a design/security/whatever choice. Breeze does. I have some that do not.

Not sure if any of the qml edits out there will work in a modern SDDM theme, though.

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I’m using KDE Neon, and believe it or not I did try to just type in the password, and on my system, it does not work. I have to click the box. I use a more or less stock neon and breeze, with the stock log in screen. If it worked I would not have made the suggestion.

Thanks,
— Jem

It works for me using the stock Breeze SDDM them on KDE neon.

Edit:
…but I just remembered that I did switch both my systems to have the SDDM session itself run in Wayland instead of the default x11 it normally runs under. I experimented wit this ages ago, and never needed to switch back.

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