Well, we'd love to add this as a feature, but I'm not aware of anything that would allow us to generally exempt Onboard from pointer grabs. If this exists, I'd be interested to learn about it.
Back in GTK2 times Onboard used to have a toggle for "Password dialogs as normal windows", which basically toggled the disable-grab key. This fell by the wayside with the switch to GTK3 and gsettings. We could possibly bring it back, though going by the age of this bug and duplicates, I'm not sure if we should. Is this still an issue today? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gksu in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/421660 Title: gksu's and gksudo's modal password prompt prevents OnBoard's virtual keyboard input, causing accessibility issues Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: Invalid Status in Ubuntu on the Nexus 7: Confirmed Status in “gksu” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I'm loath to report this as a bug, since it is functioning as designed, but I can't really find a better place to submit my complaint. I'm running 9.04 Netbook Remix, and if I run a GUI application and do something requiring sudo privileges, I receive a password prompt that blocks access to any other windows on the screen. Fine and good, but because of a disability, my only means of keyboard input is the OnBoard on-screen keyboard. My only recourse for such basic tasks as installing updates and adding packages is to pull out the terminal, hope I can find the pertinent command, and sudo it so I can give my password via terminal. This rather negates the convenience of doing these things from the GUI. Naturally, the expected behavior is that I be able to use OnBoard to enter my password into the prompt. Any other user who uses an on-screen keyboard or other GUI-based application for keyboard input will be susceptible to this issue. I imagine there are a fair number. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/421660/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
