[Debian-on-mobile-maintainers] Bug#1017842: Bug#1017842: osk-sdl: keyscript remain running in some circumstances

Balint Kovacs dratini0 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 22 20:58:00 BST 2022


On Mon, 2022-08-22 at 08:37 +1000, Undef wrote:
> 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for reporting this and tracking down the cause.
> 
> > 
> > I have osk-sdl installed on a Pinephone and a Steam Deck
> > (customized with
> > Debian). After upgrading to 0.67-2, and rebooting my either device,
> > I have
> > noticed that both get stuck after entering my passphrase into osk-
> > sdl. They are
> > both configured to use the keyscript. Adding set +x to the top of
> > the
> > keyscript, it revealed that it was the cat > /dev/null line that
> > was never
> > returning. Commenting out this line fixed the issue on both of my
> > devices.
> 
> 
> Could you please double check that 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1016146 does not
> occur 
> this line removed. Should just be a matter of entering the password
> on 
> the steam deck with the USB keyboard and making sure your password 
> doesn't appear on screen after osk-sdl closes.
> 
> With that one confirmed, this should be an easy fix.
> 

Right, that's kinda important... I have made videos of pressing enter
after typing the password on either devices, and I can confirm, it
doesn't appear.

Thank you again for your help!

Footnote, I had the same issue when using standalone mode, so I assume
the same fix applies to local-top/osk-sdl. I haven't tested that one
bit, however.



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