ssh-askpass keyboard grab problems

[John A. Sullivan III]

Thanks for the reply.  I'm not sure how to tell which version of
gnome-ssh-askpass we are using but we are using OpenSSH 3.5p1.  I'm
running on fully patched (as of July 21, 2003) RedHat 9.0 with a KDE
desktop.  I've attached a screen shot of the error (hopefully the list
takes small attachments).  We receive similar errors with ssh-askpass
only they show up on stderr instead of in a widget.

I am not explicitly grabbing the keyboard but perhaps one of the Qt
widgets I'm using does so implicitly.  Thanks again - John

On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 15:42, Jim Knoble wrote:
> 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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