gksudo feature request - Grey out the background

Ben Aldrich vrecan at gmail.com
Thu Feb 3 19:35:16 CST 2005


One thing that has bugged me about gksudo is if you have another
window already set to "ontop" it wont apear above it but everything
like lets say a video in mplayer locks up.. just really annoying as a
user.


On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:23:44 +1100, Jeff Waugh <jeff.waugh at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> <quote who="Matt Zimmerman">
> 
> > > The password dialog requests a full grab of the keyboard, so that no
> > > other window can take its input during the period of password entry.
> > > That means you don't have to be worried about (cheap'n'dirty) keyboard
> > > listeners, etc.
> >
> > Or, say, inadvertently typing your password into a gaim window which
> > popped up at the wrong time. :-)
> 
> You really shouldn't say things about my mother in your password anyway.
> 
> - Jeff
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