[Bug 236988] [NEW] HARDY: gnome-ssh-askpass does *not* grab keyboard or focus if contested with other apps

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Binary package hint: gnome-keyring

This bug is not a bug about gnome-ssh-askpass simply failing to popup.

If another gnome app already has the locks that gnome-ssh-askpass is
attempting to obtain, gnome-ssh-askpass will fail. And often as a bunk
side effect it will destroy the IO of what ever other app previously had
the locks. This is easy to see in any gnome application that utilizes
full-screen for example gnome-terminal.

Steps to reproduce with a locked key:
* open gnome-terminal
* fullscreen it (f11)
* ssh to something

Type and you will see some characters (mainly whitespace) pass through to gnome-terminal.
gnome-ssh-askpass will never obtain focus over the gnome-terminal which is already running full-screen. It will however eat pty's IO.

*****You can not exit, without killing it from a non-x TTY.*****

** Affects: openssh (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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HARDY: gnome-ssh-askpass does *not* grab keyboard or focus if contested with other apps
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/236988
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