Personally I press Ctrl
I like ctrl as well.
Less alarming and obtrusive. To the computer? For me?
I prefer left Ctrl, but will press the right ctrl if I’m feeling wild that day.
This is a great question.
I love them question.
I’m a left CTRL grill. It doesn’t press things that might input text or navigate. It’s a humble modification-key.
Caps lock because it doesn’t do anything like enter or other keys might do and if I see the light blink then I know that the computer/keyboard is not frozen.
I’ve never heard of a frozen keyboard. That is definitely not an issue to worry about every single time anyway.
Plus when it works you need a second press to turn it back off before entering the password. Way too much work.
I usually use the up key as that is one of the few buttons I know of that will open the password field (I’m assuming down also works, but I haven’t tried many others). I usually turn my monitor off (can’t just leave it on as it’s in my room and if a cat moves their ear too quickly that will wake up the screen and I can’t have that while I’m comfortable in bed) at night, so the first time I use it in a day I will turn it on, smack the up arrow and the login screen is gone before the screen turns on all the way. Which is a little sad I don’t get to see it much since I did pick out a theme and background for it, but can’t be helped.
Wireless keyboards go to sleep and can disconnect. Modern ones are sometimes smart/quick enough to send the first keypress but older ones less so. Also if the computer’s off spamming caps lock won’t turn on the light and let you know to hit the power button.
I always forget wireless keyboards exist.
Interestingly, I use the shift key for the same reason of “it does nothing”. Who knows if I left half a command in the terminal or something like that. I don’t have a caps lock led, but that’s a good idea!
Spacebar.
I always shutdown even for a short break.
Someone with their fucking life together? On Lemmy‽
The judgment spreads
Me too :)
Judged.
When did the norm become leaving computers on? Is it me who’s out of touch? No, it’s the children who are wrong.
I… Judge this
I honestly just kind of flop my hand around on the keyboard
I move the mouse.
My computer always drops the first character or two when waking, making me screw up my password. So I wiggle the mouse and by the time my hand is back on the keyboard I can type my password with confidence.
At work I just start typing the password. Sometimes I am faster than the screen coming back to life
Team mouse wiggle!
I always hit an arrow key. Just in case it’s not actually asleep but just turned off the display, and I don’t want to accidentally start typing into something without seeing the screen yet. It’s like, 99% unsubstantiated paranoia, admittedly.
Up arrow
Spacebar sometimes but usually I just smack the keyboard randomly until it wakes up lol
I make certain to always press a different key every time. I use a keyboard overlay to help keep track, by punching out the key that I just pressed. What happens when I get through them all? First, I cycle through in a unique ordering - by printing off a new overlay ofc - and then when I’m through with that, I know that it’s time to get a new keyboard. Btw I’m just kidding, if you couldn’t tell 🤣.
Control, but I have Caps Lock and my right control key swapped, so physically the Caps Lock key.
It also doesn’t really “wake” my computer. When I lock my desktop, I have the operation also set up to enable DPMS with a short timeout, so my monitor also powers down if I’m not typing for a few seconds. When I come back, I just smack Control to make the monitor power on and make my screen locker show an indication that it’s active. Unlocking the screen locker disables DPMS, so once the system’s unlocked, I don’t need to tap anything to wake the monitor.
I giggle the mouse.
Teehee
I just open it.
I mash the keyboard. It wakes.
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