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Forget star signs, what key do you press to wake up your computer from sleep? (lemm.ee)

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Personally I press Ctrl

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[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 33 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 27 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 points 3 months ago

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.

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