I’m a bit confused. The first time logging in after reboot, logout, I need to press enter to type the password. On the lock screen when the computer is idle, typing the password without pressing enter would work.
Is that correct?
It is strange. Fedora is on one computer and ubuntu is on another and typing straight away do work on neither. When log in screen appear on KDE you already see log in field with the last user icon and can type, but on gnome it is showing only logo. Who would know why typing straight away might not work? Could it be because of an unusual password characters 
As others have also suggested it seems likely that your computer is not only locked, but also suspended. This means that there has to be some action to wake it up, which in this case is pressing a key on the keyboard. Normally, when you see the screen with the big clock in the middle, it should definitely be possible to unlock typing your password right away.
How to make it to be unlocked? In power settings I enabled “Automatic suspend” Off, because my laptop after suspend does not wake up.
I never saw the big clock on screen.
Would you mind posting a picture of your lock screen?
Maybe it doesn’t work on my laptops because I disabled automatic suspend?
That screenshot is not the lock screen but the login screen. On the login screen you have to select the user first before entering the password.
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Yes, it is login screen. I thought that login screen and lockscreeen is the same. So, is there a way to type in a password right away, like in KDE in login screen? Could it remember the last user used?
There are designs in place to achieve this, but nobody has done the coding work to make it happen
Oh. Maybe it will be implemented in a future release?
Maybe, or maybe not. It entirely depends if somebody wants to implement it.
Do you mean there’s no point in making an issue for that, because it’s already done, and now is missing sb to code ?
Hopefully this topic isn’t still closed, the gnome policy is flexible. 
Yes, at least that was the state of things last time I checked.
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True that it could be factored, to make less code but also to make UI more uniform.
Seeing User prompt on lock screen, I guess it could be done with replacing the process which is part of the user session with sth similar to “Switch user”.
I guess it would be easier when login screen will be able to remember the last user used, so this part will be “ready to use”.
BTW, are there tags for lock / login screens ?
Except if the password begins with a space. AFAIK, passwords are able to begin with a space.
Why is this exception, and are there other allowed characters within this exception ?
Well, why tells the screen “with the big clock in the middle” that you do need it ?
IMHO it’s an ergonomics issue here, don’t you think ?
It seems to me that as soon as the user does anything (wakes up a suspended computer, moves the mouse, …) it should show the screen where the password is entered.
I have a related problem:
When the screen is suspended but not still locked, when I hit a key, it is right away passed to the 1st app, in the same time it wakes up the screen.
Should I make a new Topic for this problem?
Lost in the conversation so far is the case when I shouldn’t need to type at all because some other style of authentication has been set up. The topic title mentions fingerprint which is a good example; I can get in with my yubikey. Why is another input action required before the actual authentication?
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Ian
it would be cool if it would be implemented, but only if, and only if, there’s nothing to do for now. I personally don’t mind pressing enter before typing my password but it would be really convenient.
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