ssh-askpass keyboard grab problems

[Jim Knoble]

Circa 2003-07-21 21:20:19 -0400 dixit John A. Sullivan III:

: [...] We did notice that we could set SSH_ASKPASS and launch
: gnome-ssh-askpass or ssh-askpass (or I suppose anything else).
: 
: We tried this and were quite pleased with the result in that it
: allows us to get on with the rest of the code and not worry about
: this for now.  However, every time we launch the application and it
: requests the ssh password via either ssh-askpass or
: gnome-ssh-askpass or x11-ssh-askpass, we receive errors about "could
: not grab keyboard" and hints that there might be malice afoot.
: 
: What is causing this error and how to we go about eliminating it?

Does your application (or some other running application) grab the
keyboard---for example, by using XGrabKeyboard()?  What version of
x11-ssh-askpass are you using?  Could you send the exact text of the
error message(s) to the mailing list, please?

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