On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 08:12 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 01:00 -0400, Carl Schaefer wrote: > > I've seen Evolution 3.12.1 occasionally lose the ability to connect to > > one of my mail servers (not always the same server, btw) after having > > been connected for a while. When this happens a dialog box appears > > asking me to re-enter my password. Unfortunately the dialog box grabs > > the X input, which prevents me from retrieving the password from my > > password manager, so I cancel the dialog box. > > The issue of modal password boxes is discussed here every now and again > - usually in the context of Evo not remembering passwords. But it's a > window manager issue not just Evo. AFAIUI all Evo does is to ask the > window manager to give it the password for a certain account identifier > - that password is retrieved from a keyring store somewhere and if it's > not available, it will be prompted for. It's not Evolution that puts up > the password box.
agreed; the password dialog box should have an "ungrab" button, but that's not an Evolution bug. On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 08:20 +0200, Milan Crha wrote: > there is some unfinished work here. Currently, once you cancel the > password prompt the evolution-source-registry "remembers" that this > process cancelled the password prompt for this account and then does the > cancel for you automatically. The only current way to workaround this is > to close evolution, thus the evolution-source-registry process will > forget the connection between the cancel and the client process. There > is no other workaround than what you do. this seems pretty clearly to be a bug in Evolution. If there's not already a bug report on this, I'll open one. Carl _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
