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[Francis Potter <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This happens on my Dell XPS13 laptop. Here are the steps:

- Close the lid
- Wait a minute
- Open it back up

The login screen appears. The cursor is in the password area and is
flashing. Nothing I type on the keyboard does anything.

- Click on anything in the top bar -- the battery indicator, or the gear icon, or the clock
- Hit escape or click on the password box again

Now it works.

- Type my password and log in

This part is interesting: the things I was typing when attempting to log
in have been entered into the OS. In other words, if I had a browser
window up, my password attempts are there in the address bar. So the
things that I type on the login screen, when not accepted by the login
screen, are actually being accepted by the underlying operating system.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1349128

Title:
  Ubuntu 14.04 login screen doesn't accept keyboard input (until using
  indicators)

Status in Unity:
  New
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 14.04 login screen doesn't accept keyboard input in the
  password box after my system has resumed from a sleep (=lid opening),
  so I can't relogin anymore

  Excpected behaviour: the login screen should accept keyboard input and
  show them as stars in the password box.

  Workaround: click on "switch user" in the upper right corner, after
  which keyboard input is accepted again.

  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
  Release:	14.04

  System is fully updated. Problem started to happen one or two weeks
  ago, so around mid July 2014.

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