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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0008253Kali LinuxGeneral Bugpublic2025-07-14 09:17
Reporterthisrequired Assigned Todaniruiz  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionwon't fix 
Product Version2023.1 
Summary0008253: Keystrokes made to show the login screen in lock/suspend state get registered in the username or password field
Description

When Kali Linux is in Lock or Suspend state, pressing any key to show the login screen causes the login page to register that key in either in the username or password field, depending on where the cursor is located. For instance, if a user presses the space key to show the login screen, the space is registered at the start of the username field. This becomes an issue since the space is not visible, and the user keeps trying to enter the password, leading to login failure each time. Moreover, the registered key makes the user backspace, an unnecessary step. This bug needs to be fixed to ensure that key registration does not occur when showing the login screen.

Steps To Reproduce

In Lock or Suspend state, pressing any key to show the login screen causes the login page to register that key in either in the username or password field, depending on where the cursor is located.

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daniruiz

daniruiz

2023-04-15 11:00

manager   ~0017804

There's already an upstream bugreport opened in the lightdm project (from 2019) but unfortunately it doesn't show much activity
https://github.com/canonical/lightdm/issues/98
or maybe https://github.com/canonical/lightdm/issues/215

I'm closing this as we don't have the manpower to investigate those issues ourselves.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2023-04-07 03:46 thisrequired New Issue
2023-04-15 11:00 daniruiz Note Added: 0017804
2023-04-15 11:00 daniruiz Assigned To => daniruiz
2023-04-15 11:00 daniruiz Status new => closed
2023-04-15 11:00 daniruiz Resolution open => won't fix
2025-07-14 09:17 g0tmi1k Priority none => normal