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Mentioned a couple of times in passing but… unl0kr is an alternative to the LUKS prompt screen when you power up the phone. Its benefits seem to be smaller size, a bit roomier keyboard layout, light/dark setting, and keyboard layout options for us/es/de/fr (azerty) with all kinds of characters included for complex passwords (although the ASCII printable character table may be a safer option).

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It also recognizes at least a USB mouse at boot, which may help in some special cases. External keyboard probably too, but mine was a bit iffy. There is some info and tweaks at the repo site.

Installation (from):

  • fix your /etc/crypttab file: replace osk-sdl-keyscript to unl0kr-keyscript
  • install: sudo apt install unl0kr
  • rebuild initrd.img file: run sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-6.6.0-1-librem5 [the current image in backports - this may change, so check yours]
  • reboot (if no errors - otherwise you may want to slow down and backtrack)
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