It’s kind of buggy where I’ll enter characters but they won’t register. I can verify this because when booting, sometimes my num and caps lock keys will have a delay after pressing before their light changes.
This is very annoying when trying to unlock the computer, because I essentially have to wait an arbitrary amount of time before I think inputs will register properly. This wouldn’t be as much of an issue if I could, you know, get some feedback that they keys I’m entering are actually being entered.
Is there a way to change this to suit my needs better?
Perhaps this is a little overkill, but you could install a display manager like GDM or SDDM that displays a graphical password input.
They’re asking about the password prompt for the disk encryption, which is shown before the rootfs can be accessed. Thus, installing a display manager to the rootfs will not help. Furthermore, a display manager serves the purpose of logging in users, not unlocking an encrypted partition.
You are right! I meant to refer to Plymouth, which will do what I described. It’s been a while since I did this.