ssh-askpass keyboard grab problems

[John A. Sullivan III]

Found it! Thanks for the direction and, as you rightly suspected, it was
application based.  SSH was invoked when <ENTER> was pressed in the
command field.  For some reason which I do not yet understand, pressing
<ENTER> also activated a push button that also invoked SSH (it appears
that somehow the button gained an errant focus).  The two SSH sessions
were competing with each other for keyboard control.  Thanks again -
John

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 01:33, Jim Knoble wrote:
> Circa 2003-07-22 22:15:45 -0400 dixit John A. Sullivan III:
> 
> : 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.
> 
> Some other application is definitely grabbing the keyboard before
> x11-ssh-askpass can get it.  It also looks as if somebody (your app?
> ssh?) started two instances of x11-ssh-askpass (the number in square
> brackets is the PID)---i can't tell whether it was sequentially or in
> parallel.
> 
> By default, x11-ssh-askpass tries to grab once per second for 5
> seconds.  This may be changed in the source code.  The "empty" dialog
> appears because x11-ssh-askpass attempts to grab the keyboard before
> allowing passphrase entry, to prevent eavesdropping.
> 

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