[Bug 1090640] Re: Cannot type password into gksudo with onboard on nexus7

[Tony Mugan]

Thanks for the tip.
I've got past it with an OTA cable to plug in an external USB keyboard but
wanted to record it for consideration by the developers.
On 15/12/2012 9:15 PM, "Francesco Fumanti" <francesco.fumanti at gmx.net>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Turning off the grab in gksu might help. Here is the command to enter into
> the terminal:
> gconftool-2 -s /apps/gksu/disable-grab -t bool true
>
> This might however have an impact on the security of the system.
>
> Cheers,
>
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> Title:
>   Cannot type password into gksudo with onboard on nexus7
>
> Status in “onboard” package in Ubuntu:
>   New
>
> Bug description:
>   I run in aterminal
>
>   gksudo synaptic
>
>   the password dialog that pops up takes the window focus so that
>   onboard cannot be used on nexus7
>
>   ProblemType: Bug
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
>   Package: onboard 0.99.0~alpha1~tr1190-0ubuntu1
>   Uname: Linux 3.1.10-8-nexus7 armv7l
>   ApportVersion: 2.7-0ubuntu2
>   Architecture: armhf
>   Date: Sat Dec 15 15:19:00 2012
>   InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-09 (5 days ago)
>   InstallationMedia: Ubuntu Raring Ringtail (development branch) - armhf
> (20121208-15:17)
>   MarkForUpload: True
>   ProcEnviron:
>    LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
>    TERM=xterm
>    PATH=(custom, no user)
>    LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
>    SHELL=/bin/bash
>   SourcePackage: onboard
>   UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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