Forget star signs, what key do you press to wake up your computer from sleep?

The "any" key, of course.

Usually space

I move the mouse.

Space

ESC

I pick up the mouse, hold it to my mouth and say, "Computer...?”

Space key. That way it won't accidentally enter an actual letter or command that could be passed to the current active application.

That's not really much of a problem anymore these days (serious issue in WinXP era), but it's still the safe key, so I use it.

Edit: I totally botched this. I meant Shift key. Derp.

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.

Shift because it can't trigger an action on its own.

<Tinfoil hat>
Using space, enter, control, or alt can trigger functions in windows if another key is stuck for a weird reason.
</Tinfoil hat>

A nice open palm slap on the middle of the keyboard does the trick for me

Spacebar

Arrow keys

Space, because I enjoy chaos.

qwerdsffyjiluiop;hjmdb

sfg [waggle mouse] qqwthr

Mouse wiggles

ctrl is the only correct choice obviously. it's the only key that does nothing by itself and it's positioned at a corner so it's hard to mistype

I shake the mouse then start entering my login before the screen turns on, works 50% of the time.

Shift.

They're big enough I don't have to aim. They're located on both edges (at least on TKL). They do nothing on their own.

Space - The Final Frontier

These are the voyages...

Any single modifier key by itself, in case it’s just the screen that’s asleep and I’m inadvertently typing into a text field.

I always turn off my computer when I'm done. I like to get a fresh boot

Up arrow

Left Ctrl

My 2 year old, when prompted to hit any key, hit the power button instead.

Anyway, the answer is a swift kick of my desk to move my mouse cause that seems to wake it up.

I always shutdown even for a short break.

I just smack the keyboard or press a bunch of keys at once.

Up arrow

I spam escape but I usally disable sleep on all my machines and use hibernation instead. Too many issues with sleep. Randomly wakes up, USB devices aren't recognized, a monitor stays black...

Mouse click.

Been using spacebar but what I would like to do is set up a midi drum pad as an input device so I can wake my computer up by smacking it with a stick.

Fingerprint scanner power button thing

I have to press the power button because the dumbass enters deep sleep.

I stomp on my usb foot pedal

Backspace, because my cat likes to step on my keyboard and then characters are often left in the password field that need cleared.

Wait... You guys actually only push one button?

I slide my entire hand across the keyboard like I'm waving to the computer haha

Sleep? I run Linux. It's on. Or it's off. So power? I guess?

Depends the OS.

Windows its Space

On Linux shift since space will fill in the password field with spaces

Any key

I'm a mad man I click different shit every time.

Lawful Neutral, ctrl.

Esc like 3-5 times (to also prompt the login input) or mouse wiggle

my computer doesnt go to sleep.

It must stay awake, at all times, awaiting my input.

Space. On my mechanical keyboard it makes a nice thunk. You really know you've pressed it.

Caps lock because it doesn't do anything like enter or other keys might do and if I see the light blink then I know that the computer/keyboard is not frozen.

The power button. I've disabled usb-wake because my wireless mouse keeps waking up my computer

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

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!

Escape is kinda hardcoded as a safe button in my headspace and spacebar is just fun to press.

Left arrow up arrow right arrow. over and over and over again until the computer comes up

I press my whole hand into the keyboard hitting like 20 keys probably

Mouse click gang

Backspace

Ctrl to wake the screen, system set to never sleep. Stupid Plex running on Windows addiction.

Haven't seen anyone else comment this, I mash all arrow keys

Originally I got into this habit thinking that arrow keys would do nothing, and in most interfaces they don't, but I have learned the hard way they certainly do stuff when watching YouTube.

However it's too late and too embedded in my brain to wake my PC by mashing arrow keys so that is my life

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.

Mash low in the corner.

Probably a combo of Ctrl-shift-alt-super-z-x-space

I know, much barbarian.

I smash the arrow keys like I’m playing a synthesizer.

My desktop pc doesn't wake up from keyboard inputs, so the power button. On my laptop I just open the lid.

i rapidly press as many keys as i can within a 1 second time frame

or i just slam the enter key a few times

I push the power button on the tower.

Wait, there are people that don't press Ctrl?

If it's suspended I usually open my laptop. If its just locked/screen off I put in my password and press enter because GDM doesn't need to be first "woken up" before entering the password.

So it's "the first letter in my password" which is .....

Power. I'm weird like that, I guess.

Scroll Lock

My PC dual functions as a server so it never sleeps

I plop my furry balls menacingly on the keyboard and inevitably hit at least half the keys

My machine is dual boot and boots so fast I don't sleep it. If booting to linux, after login it resumes my previous session exactly as it was anyway. No point sleeping it to me.

Esc also removes anything typed into swaylock so esc

I use a macbook for work, so I lightly tap the power button and touchID unlocks it.

Cursor-right.

It's least likely to mess up your command line, won't trigger an action, and easy to find blind.

I'm so surprised people have specific buttons? Is there a reason? I just mash my whole hand at the keyboard

space, ctrl, or sometimes the entire numpad at once. it's just one big button :P

Numpad Enter, its a large Key on the edge of the Keyboard i guess?

I honestly just kind of flop my hand around on the keyboard

Mash the DEL key, because it skips the prompt to click OK to login, and takes me straight to password entry.

Numlock. Let's me know if the hardware is locked up, powered off, or just slow to wake.

Getting ready for the downvotes… I put my finger on the touch-id sensor of the wireless keyboard.

On my Linux laptops, I usually swipe on the trackpad or track point. If that doesn’t do anything, one of the ctrl keys.

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.

I slap the spacebar, often multiple times if I'm impatient

If there is a pin set, decimal on the numpad, else Ctrl or ESC.

Win/Super key

I find that pretty safe.

None! And the sucker still wakes up all the time.

I giggle the mouse.

I mash the keyboard. It wakes.

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 thump my water bottle down on the desk just hard enough to make my mouse trigger and wake up the PC. By the time I'm sat comfortably it's awaiting a password :]

Control. I'm mildly paranoid any other key will actually go through and type/do something.

I just open it.

The first letter of my password.

I also use Ctrl, or I waggle my mouse to wake both it and my PC (it's wireless).

Arrow up. Multiple times.

The power button

Esc, t, or I move the mouse. Depends on my goal when I'm waking it up.

I use numlok mostly. I guess I’m weird!

SPACE bar

I use a arrow key, usually the arrow to the right

Ctrl+Alt+delete for my work computer so I can go straight to password input.
Space for my home computer.

Am I the only one that just kind throws my hand on the keyboard and what happens happens?

The only correct answer is num lock. Caps lock is sort of correct, but it's a stupid key on anything that's not a typewriter so I usually disable it so the only correct answer is num lock. No exceptions.

click the power button i guess, i forgot.

If you mean actual sleep, as in S3 sleep, that would be the power button as I disable waking from sleep from anything else as I don't like the PC waking up from accidental keyboard key presses or mouse movements.

If you mean when the monitor goes to sleep, it's the shift key that I mash. Yes, that means on Windows I always have to disable that stupid shortcut to enable StickyKeys.

I bang my head of the keyboard so it's random.

Home laptop, power button. Work computer, CTRL-ALT twice brings the login screen.

Any key at the corner. Usually arrow right. It doesn't mess up my password during the time it is waking up where I'm unsure if it is missing one or two characters. Sometimes also [ or control or fn or even backspace depending which keyboard I'm using.

My YubiKey.

Either ctrl or any of the arrow keys

Spacebar.

Fn or moving the mouse.

Spacebar sometimes but usually I just smack the keyboard randomly until it wakes up lol

Mouse wiggles

I slam the keyboard like a piano player playing Flight of the Bumblebee

My PC just never sleeps.

I just change the TV input to PC IN and it's already on.

I make certain to always press a different key every time. I use a keyboard overlay to help keep track, by punching out the key that I just pressed. What happens when I get through them all? First, I cycle through in a unique ordering - by printing off a new overlay ofc - and then when I'm through with that, I know that it's time to get a new keyboard. Btw I'm just kidding, if you couldn't tell 🤣.

Enter key or space bar

Shift, Escape and mouse wiggle, in that order.

First thing I do on any computer that I'm using (work, home) is turning sleep and suspend off. When it's a laptop I disable that closing the lid suspends the laptop. I hate it when I'm moving to a meeting room the thing shuts off. It spins up quickly, but network or whatever is gone, plus gotta unlock it again. Nay.

On other devices, it's moving the mouse first to see if it's not the monitor that went in standby, if that doesn't work I go ham on the spacebar. Finally, the power button if space does nothing, to admit defeat.

I've always used Ctrl for that. I had my computer for 2 years before I discovered that Ctrl is the "wake from sleep" key, and no other keys would work anyway. (it's a thinkpad)

I press A. Keyboard wakes up the computer but mouse doesn't, both USB and same brand.

Alt

Right. Mouse. Button.

I will not be taking any questions.

My computer never gets the chance to sleep.

I don't. I move the mouse.

I was very very very drunk.

probably J, since thats where my right hand rests.

Enter