sddm 0.12.0 does not focus the password field and the keyboard does nothing

[NeKJ]

When booted up SDDM comes up with the last used username selected and the password field apparently "focused" but in reality it is not, as when I try to type it does nothing. Also the keyboard keys (e.g. TAB) don't do anything at all at that moment until I use the mouse to click on the password field which then I can type in the password and also use TAB to move around the fields.

[SamuelGilbert42]

I was about to report an issue for this and I saw that someone had already done it.

Every sddm functionality must be accessible with the keyboard. I also agree that the password field must be focused by default.

[plfiorini]

What theme are you using?

[heirecka]

I encountered the same behaviour with the maui theme and just tested it with elarun, circles and maledives which show the same behaviour.
Version of Qt is 5.5.0.

For Maledives I just noticed that when you click outside of the box with the input fields, you also can't get back to the password field via tab key. I did not test that with other themes, though.

[mcurly]

Hello.

I don't know if the issue being reported as a bug prevents it from having others (like myself) to report the same behavior as well.

Nevertheless I must enroll myself to the list of those who suffer from this issue (on both my pc's running up-to-date ArchLinux)

I also am going to refer this on the #archlinux irc channel, since I've been there yesterday and this was unknown there. Also, will subscribe to this thread to see if/how I can collaborate even further.

Regards.

[ctrlcctrlv]

This isn't a themes bug @plfiorini. This affects all themes that I tried, and even when I added focus: true that didn't work. Downstream (from you) KDE came up with this fix way back in July 2014 and it still works today, I copied it to the theme I'm using & opened a PR. However, I'm sure that everyone would appreciate you fixing this in SDDM proper.

Note that it does seem to work if you do e.g. sddm-greeter --test --theme /usr/share/sddm/themes/archlinux-simplyblack and open sddm-greeter from Xorg, but if you actually reboot and see SDDM it doesn't work.

[hhl]

Mh, well i use a custom theme, based on elarun, without the lastUser is displayed.
I set the username field to focus:true but nothing happen, i have to click with the mouse into the textfield to type in the username, it would be great if focus:true works also on the username field, if it is empty.
edit: i took the workaround from above, now it is working.

[cyxou]

I'm facing the same problem with all the standard sddm themes on Arch. But when I applied the archlinux-soft-gray theme from the archlinux-themes-sddm package, the problem is gone and the password field is focused ready for typing in.

[AlohaEh]

It worked after I copied the timer cludge from the kde login manager into SddmComponents/PasswordBox.qml

    TextBox { 
        id: txtMain 
        width: parent.width
        height: parent.height 
        font.pixelSize: 14 
        echoMode: TextInput.Password 
        focus: true 
        Timer { 
            interval: 200 
            running: true 
            onTriggered: txtMain.forceActiveFocus() 
        } 
    }

[hhl]

One of the issue that "heirecka" reported above,

For Maledives I just noticed that when you click outside of the box with the input fields, you also can't get back to the password field via tab key.

can easily be fixed!
Just go to the background section of main.qml and insert there at the right place

KeyNavigation.backtab: pw_entry; KeyNavigation.tab: user_entry

Here i have an example for the elarun main.qml

   Repeater {
           model: screenModel
           Background {
              x: geometry.x; y: geometry.y; width: geometry.width; height:geometry.height
               source: config.background
               fillMode: Image.PreserveAspectCrop

               /* insert here the TabKeyNavigation row */
               KeyNavigation.backtab: pw_entry; KeyNavigation.tab: user_entry

               onStatusChanged: {
                   if (status == Image.Error && source != config.defaultBackground) {
                    source = config.defaultBackground
                   }
               }
           }
       }

edit: it seems so, that you need to integrate the timer hack/kludge, to get focus the first time.
If sddm starts from boot, without that timer hack, it doesn’t work with the tab key navigation, first you have to click into the input field and jump around with the tab key and then click in the background, now it works.
So You need the timer hack too, to get the advance of it.

[doktor5000]

Would that also fix the initial autofocus, or only allow to switch via tab key to first input field?

[hhl]

No, that doesn't fix the initial focus, you need that "timer hack".
Also it works "only" if you included the timer hack.

[abbradar]

I've hit this on 0.13.0 on NixOS, with maui theme.

[wedens]

same problem with 0.13.0 on NixOS with default theme

[benjarobin]

I did some preliminary test, I did put this inside the .xinitrc

exec sddm-greeter --test --theme /usr/share/sddm/themes/maui

If I start Xorg with startx, the interface is started without focus on the password field.
Then I did change the .xinitrc to :

twm &
exec sddm-greeter --test --theme /usr/share/sddm/themes/maui

And now I did have the focus on the password field...

[benjarobin]

I did run a bisect (between v0.11.0 and v0.12.0) and I found that the problematic commit is : 947b8d1

[benjarobin]

I am so sorry to ask that but the project is dead ? There is a pull request that fix the issue...

[kainino0x]

I have actually stopped experiencing this issue as of a few weeks ago (on two different systems, one of which has two displays). I am on Arch Linux with extra/sddm 0.13.0-2.

I don't believe there's been an SDDM update since I stopped having the issue - so maybe it's somehow a configuration change or another package update. However, it might have been the upgrade to 0.13.0 (maybe I just didn't notice for a while).

[mirh]

I'm also on arch and it's still bugged in 0.13.0-2.

[dean36963]

I am running a custom build of sddm in my Arch Linux that has this pull request in. I have sddm-0.13.0-2 in my local packages, that was the last version I tried and that had the same issue for me too. Hopefully this can get merged and fixed soon.

[markg85]

Oh men...

I was just so fed up with this focus issue that i nose dived into the code to figure out what was wrong. I hacked several things before i checked out git to see if it had any updates. I'm glad it has, it fixes my no.1 issue :) Too bad i didn't look at git right from the start.

Please do release a new version with this. It's a really annoying bug on multiscreen setups!
And thank you very much for fixing this!

[ghost]

This issue is still present in Manjaro 4.4.13-1-MANJARO
[KDE Plasma Version 5.6.5, Frameworks 5.23.0, Qt 5.6.1]

[klawdhfzasjhaa]

With version 0.14.0-6.1 it's fixed. Yeeha! :)
I'm on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
EDIT:
Little restriction: It only works on the laptop screen. With an external screen attached, it still does not work. :(

[SharkWipf]

I started experiencing this issue too, the moment I switched from the Intel modesetting driver to the DDX driver. Running version 0.17.0-r1 from the Gentoo unstable repos.

[jernejkubuntu]

Kubuntu 18.04.1
sddm/bionic,now 0.17.0-1ubuntu7 amd64

when booting with external monitor, can't input password
the input field does not accept focus
(text cursor is not present after clicking on input, or when trying with tab)

keyboard does work and can change to a different terminal

workaround:

1. change to a different terminal
2. find sddm ( ps -ef | grep sddm)
3. kill sddm it will auto restart ( sudo kill (proces number from 2) )

after the service restarts, it will automatically change your terminal to the graphic login.
the login will be working.

[LudSkywalker]

In my case, an solution to fix the problem is search in de main.qml or login.qml in which part are located the form or the input for the password, and in this put the property focus:primaryScreen, this make than you can put your password, press enter and login, but you can't see the password field changing(this because in dual monitor the screen by default is not the primary), in the case of you are using lubuntu default theme, just replace "focus:true" to "focus:primaryScreen" at the line 130 in Main.qml located in /usr/share/sddm/themes/lubuntu/