Personally I press Ctrl
my computer doesnt go to sleep.
It must stay awake, at all times, awaiting my input.
As nature intended
That’s the way. Turning computers off isn’t good for them anyway.
yep, thermal cycling from on and off is worse on the hardware than just leaving it on and idle.
There are some ancient hard drives that still spin purely because they have not had a chance to stop in the last decade. I have serviced some of them.
It was terrifying.
ESC
Can’t believe I had to scroll this far. Always Escape!
I’ve always used Ctrl for that. I had my computer for 2 years before I discovered that Ctrl is the “wake from sleep” key, and no other keys would work anyway. (it’s a thinkpad)
Lawful Neutral, ctrl.
Mash the DEL key, because it skips the prompt to click OK to login, and takes me straight to password entry.
I hit the “wake on lan” icon on my phone, since my computer is in a different room from my monitor and the usb doesn’t work for waking it up directly. But if I could, left ctrl all day!
Idk how anyone does anything else. It’s in the corner, easy to hit…. It’s basically only a modifier key, so it will do nothing but wake the computer.
I don’t want to type a space, or accidentally close something.
It’s in the corner
Angry ThinkPad noises
Swap the keys in the bios
Why, when they’re already perfect?
Mouse click gang
If it’s suspended I usually open my laptop. If its just locked/screen off I put in my password and press enter because GDM doesn’t need to be first “woken up” before entering the password.
So it’s “the first letter in my password” which is …
H
u
n
t
e
r
2
g
M
Space, because I enjoy chaos.
F3, what else?
Space key. That way it won’t accidentally enter an actual letter or command that could be passed to the current active application.
That’s not really much of a problem anymore these days (serious issue in WinXP era), but it’s still the safe key, so I use it.
Edit: I totally botched this. I meant Shift key. Derp.
Space bar is “accept” in many interfaces. If the screen was off but not locked, and a dialog box was focused, hitting space will submit that in some OS.
Control, on the other hand, won’t.
I always wake up with space and I have had that problem once. That was on a PC that was installing using PXE.
Otherwise my PC is pretty much always locked if the screen has gone to sleep.
I remember one time when I was a youth trying to fix my dad’s computer, he tried to wake it with the space bar. The screen came on and that space bar cancelled some long running operation. Woops.
Enter
Esc, t, or I move the mouse. Depends on my goal when I’m waking it up.
I honestly just kind of flop my hand around on the keyboard
Space
The final frontier
