Turn off all, but the alphanumeric keyboard? about swaylock HOT 10 CLOSED

Why?

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It reacts and looks on the screen like I pressed some keys by mistake.

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Wait, what would this feature be about exactly? Ignore keypresses from a part of the keyboard?

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Exactly.

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I'm not a fan of this. It could easily lock users out if they need to insert non-ASCII letters or switch layouts, and I'm not convinced of its usefulness.

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Oh, true. So would be better when the key is entered, then swaylock should react.

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One use case might be that switching virtual terminals (ctrl+alt+f1, ctrl+alt+f2, ...) can be locked when swaylock is active.

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I didn't notice this issue, but it doesn't make sense to do this. Switching to other virtual terminals isn't a problem, since they'll be locked behind a getty.

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Switching to other virtual terminals isn't a problem, since they'll be locked behind a getty.

Only if there is no login session active^^. IIRC the gnome screenlocker somehow blocks switching to virtual terminals when it's active.

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So how about reacting only to an entered letter, not to any key?

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