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by shrimp_emoji 1955 days ago
>Also, Ubuntu (with GNOME), Kubuntu, and Xubuntu (but not Lubuntu...) recently switched to some new crypto greeter (the thing you put your password into to unlock your encrypted drive at boot) which glitches out very badly. On every other boot, it flickers between its graphical facade and the underlying CLI prompt, and single keypresses are interpreted as multiple ones. Lubuntu, however, uses the same crypto greeter as Manjaro seems to, which still works.

EDIT: it turns out that the falling back to the underlying CLI is the greeter's response to arrow key input (e.g., the up arrow key is "^[[A", which is multiple characters[0]). XD And, with Num Lock turned off, the numpad keys work as arrow keys.

0: https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/103608