This is what it looks like when SDDM (the display manager/login screen) looks like in Plucky:
As you can in my comments on this bug, due to some recent changes that are trying to make life easier for tablets, the virtual keyboard now pops up by default. This will make things much easier for tablets, who have a terrible struggle to deal with when they don’t have the virtual keyboard.
For desktop users, the solution is simple: swipe it away. That little button that looks like a keyboard with a carat pointing downwards between the period and enter key is all you need to click to do so. In case that’s not clear, it’s this button:
If you want to permanently make it go away, add the following to /etc/sddm.conf:
[General]
InputMethod=
Luckily, this doesn’t change things for input in the rest of the system.
It’s possible this might change once we have a Wayland session, but we’re waiting on some core pieces (Mir) to get resolved in Debian before we can begin work on that.