In the case where a screen is attached to my laptop and the two screens are displaying the same content, the password field in the lock screen does get the focus so I need to click on it to be able to enter my password.
Just noticed: if I type my password with the text input not having the input, I can still log in. But visually, it looks like I am not typing anything. So it seems that the problem is not that the text input does not have focus but rather that the dipslay of the text input is not refreshed ...
The problem is still there in 5.14
Hello! You can try to use this (D17706) change, the non-working focus is fixed in it, maybe this will help solve your problem.
Hi, that indeed fixes this issue!
Git commit 2fdf002b11cf287bd7f244e884c9cd3da47aa693 by Nate Graham, on behalf of Andrey Bychkov. Committed on 08/02/2019 at 16:21. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. Fix lock screen focus Summary: When the screen is locked, the focus always remains on the main screen. This patch fixes the problem: now the focus is on the screen where the cursor is located. FIXED-IN: 5.16.0 Reviewers: davidedmundson Reviewed By: davidedmundson Subscribers: ngraham, graesslin, abetts, davidedmundson, plasma-devel Tags: #plasma Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D17706 M +36 -32 greeter/greeterapp.cpp M +1 -0 greeter/greeterapp.h https://commits.kde.org/kscreenlocker/2fdf002b11cf287bd7f244e884c9cd3da47aa693