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.
I have a BLE keyboard and a BLE trackball, so they lose connection when PC is sleeping. To wake it up I press the power button
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 always shutdown even for a short break.
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
Someone with their fucking life together? On Lemmy‽
The judgment spreads
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
Backspace
Right arrow. Wake on mouse disabled because cats. Right arrow is on the bottom right corner and convenient to hit when pulling the keyboard tray out.
I hit the “wake on lan” icon on my phone, since my computer is in a different room from my monitor and the usb doesn’t work for waking it up directly. But if I could, left ctrl all day!
Idk how anyone does anything else. It’s in the corner, easy to hit…. It’s basically only a modifier key, so it will do nothing but wake the computer.
I don’t want to type a space, or accidentally close something.
It’s in the corner
Angry ThinkPad noises
Swap the keys in the bios
I honestly just kind of flop my hand around on the keyboard
I’m a mad man I click different shit every time.
Control and alt .Bonus: To move to the bottom of a terminal, I have it set to scroll to bottom on input and hit backspace.
A modifier key by itself, in case it’s just the screen that’s asleep and I’m inadvertently typing into a text field.
If there is a pin set, decimal on the numpad, else Ctrl or ESC.
I mash the keyboard. It wakes.
