Daniel, You're right that shift doesn't dismiss the lock screen. I've asked some others to try to reproduce and they have failed also.
I think what is happening might instead be related to me hitting the 'shift' key repeatedly as my screen is going to sleep. It seems that that causes an issue where the there is a split brain on the state of either caps lock or shift. I just noticed right now when trying to gpg sign something that *it* I had to put the caps lock key on *it* also. (this is the full screen dialog for gpg). I suspect that a reboot will cure this until I frantically start hitting 'shift' again when the screensaver is fading out. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1730478 Title: using shift key to wake up display causes invalid password Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Summary: hitting 'shift' before typing your password can get "stuck" down and cause you to not be able to log in. I have a habit of using the shift key wake the display of my system after i've been away from it for a while, and then typing my password. I started having trouble logging in, as if my fingers weren't typing the right password. It took me a while to figure out what was going on, but i thought maybe that I'd inadvertantly hit 'caps-lock' and that was causing the issue. So I hit it again, and then logged in successfully. However, upon login I found that caps-lock was enabled. So to reproduce: a.) let the screen lock or lock it manually. b.) hit shift key (i hit left shift) c.) type password correctly: watch fail to login d.) note that you can hit caps-lock and then successfully login e.) note that after login, caps lock is set, that you didn't make this all up. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: gnome-screensaver 3.6.1-7ubuntu6 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4 Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl zcommon znvpair ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Mon Nov 6 13:12:29 2017 EcryptfsInUse: Yes GnomeSessionIdleInhibited: No GnomeSessionInhibitors: None GsettingsGnomeSession: org.gnome.desktop.session session-name 'ubuntu' org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay uint32 300 InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-07-23 (837 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha amd64 (20150722.1) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-screensaver UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1730478/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
