ssh-askpass keyboard grab problems

[John A. Sullivan III]

Latin e-mail . . . interesting :-)
I changed SSH_ASKPASS to x11-ssh-askpass.  I could not use a simple X
session as when I call the application from the command line, it prompts
for the password on the command line rather than calling SSH_ASKPASS.  I
launched it from the KDE desktop running only my application.  The
password prompt appears but it is immediately covered by an empty dialog
box.  If I move the empty dialog box and login quickly, all i fine
(except that if I take the intuitive step of pressing <ENTER> to enter
my password rather than click on OK, it tells me that I used the wrong
password - or at least it appears to).
If I do not move quickly enough, I receive the following errors on
stderr:

x11-ssh-askpass[1981]: Trying to grab keyboard ...
x11-ssh-askpass[1981]: Could not grab keyboard (someone else already has
it)
Permission denied, please try again.
x11-ssh-askpass[1982]: Trying to grab keyboard ...
x11-ssh-askpass[1982]: Could not grab keyboard (someone else already has
it)
Permission denied, please try again.

Pardon my ignorance of rpm but I wasn't quite sure how to find the
version.  The nearest I could come was checking the change log through
rpm and that reflects version 1.2.4.1.  Thanks - John

On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 19:53, Jim Knoble wrote:
> Circa 2003-07-22 17:08:43 -0400 dixit 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.
> 
> Unfortunately, i don't know anything about gnome-ssh-askpass.  I'm the
> author of x11-ssh-askpass, which is why i asked you about which version
> of it you were running.
> 
> : I'm running on fully patched (as of July 21, 2003) RedHat 9.0 with a
> : KDE desktop.
> 
> The version of x11-ssh-askpass used in Red Hat's packages is listed in
> the specfile for the openssh source RPM package, available from Red
> Hat's FTP site or from your source CDs.
> 
> : 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.
> 
> Unfortunately, the list-manager filters out such attachments.  In the
> future, please make the image available somewhere on the web or via
> FTP.
> 
> The image appears to be a screenshot of a gnome-ssh-askpass message.
> Can you reproduce this with x11-ssh-askpass?  The error message would
> probably appear in your session log (on Red Hat Linux, your session log
> is usually in "${HOME}/.xsession-errors").
> 
> : I am not explicitly grabbing the keyboard but perhaps one of the Qt
> : widgets I'm using does so implicitly.  Thanks again - John
> 
> That's the sort of thing i'm expecting is the case.  You might try
> reproducing this with a minimal number of applications running ... for
> example:
> 
>   cd
>   if [ -f .xsession ]; then
>     mv -f .xsession .xsession.backup
>   fi
>   cat <<'EOF' >.xsession
>   #!/bin/sh
>   xterm -geometry +1+1 &
>   exec twm
>   EOF
>   chmod +x .xsession
> 
> and then choose 'Default' from the '> Session' menu on Red Hat's
> graphical login screen.
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John A. Sullivan III
Chief Technology Officer
Nexus Management
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john.sullivan at nexusmgmt.com
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