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When prompted to type in root password, right clicking causes the cursor to permanently disappear (no input possible then, only cancel)

Bug #45639 reported by Tobey
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libgksuui1.0 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

When asked to type in your root password, right clicking in the text box opens a context menu, which makes the carrot disappear and it won't come back, so you can't type in your password. The only way out is to click cancel.

Steps:
1. Open an application that requires you to be root (Disks, Synaptic, etc.)
2. Right-Click on text box

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Jérémie Corbier (jcorbier) wrote :

Same bug for me. When trying to launch something like "gksudo gvim" from a terminal and if I right-click on the text box as explained by Tobey, the text box can't get the focus back. Moreover when I try to type some text the input is handled by the terminal and thus everything I wrote is readable.

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Jérémie Corbier (jcorbier) wrote :

What about disabling the context menu when we right-click on the text entry? In that case this bug should be reassigned to libgksuui afaik...

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Jérémie Corbier (jcorbier) wrote : Debdiff

Debdiff. It adds a patch disabling the right-click context menu.

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Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor) wrote : Re: When prompted to type in root password, right clicking causes carrot to permanently disappear

The right click menu doesn't allow to swich the input method currently. So I don't see that it is of further use.

Could setting the order too always top be a workaround?

Changed in libgksuui1.0:
assignee: nobody → mvo
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C_nemo (aarsathe) wrote :

I filed a duplicate of this bug against gksu (didnt know that there was a package named libkgsuui, so my review of open bug reports didn't turn up anything similar)

Might i add:

1) Whatever you type after the gksu window loses focus ends up in the application having focus behind the faded desktop. Including enter, so if your unlucky you might send your password to someone on IM or IRC (parts of mine ended up in a openoffice document befor i realised what was happening).

2) The 'menu' key on a windows keyboard has the same effect as the right-click, and much easier to hit when your typing your passowrd

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Jérémie Corbier (jcorbier) wrote :

Hmm... I didn't notice the menu key thing. My patch is not complete then.

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Adam Niedling (krychek) wrote :

This is still an issue in Intrepid.

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David Futcher (bobbo) wrote :

Adding tag patch-needswork as by the author's own admission, the patch is incomplete. We will gladly look at any updated/new patches for this problem. If you add a new patch, please remove the patch-needswork tag so the reviewers team will see it. Thanks!

tags: added: patch-needswork
Robbie Williamson (robbiew)
Changed in libgksuui1.0 (Ubuntu):
assignee: Michael Vogt (mvo) → nobody
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Adam Niedling (krychek) wrote :

It works in Oneiric.

Changed in libgksuui1.0 (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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