gnome-screensaver entry doesn't display chars typed with xim since gtk 2.17.4

[Steve Langasek]

Binary package hint: gnome-screensaver

With a recent update in karmic, gnome-screensaver no longer gives any visual indication that a keypress has been received. This is disorienting, at minimum; the first few times seeing this, I switched to console and killed the screensaver process manually rather than risk my keypresses being passed to some random window on the desktop.

If I click 'Leave Message' and 'Cancel', the password field gives me a visual indicator after that, but unless I do that the field is grayed out and blank even though my password apparently is registered correctly.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jul 15 00:05:01 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-screensaver 2.27.0-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-3.19-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-screensaver
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-3-generic x86_64

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

gnome-screensaver didn't change recently but gtk did, I don't confirm the issue there though

[Rick Spencer (rick-rickspencer3)]

I appear to be running the same version of gnome screen saver, and was also not able to reproduce this issue.

Package Info:
Package: gnome-screensaver
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 2.27.0-0ubuntu3
Priority: optional
Section: gnome
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <email address hidden>
Uncompressed Size: 4239k
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0), libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4),
         libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.78), libfontconfig1 (>=
         2.4.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libgconf2-4 (>= 2.23.2),
         libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1, libglade2-0 (>= 1:2.6.1), libglib2.0-0 (>=
         2.16.0), libgnome-desktop-2-11 (>= 1:2.27.3), libgnome-menu2 (>=
         2.15.4), libgnomekbd3, libgnomekbdui3, libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.17.0), libice6
         (>= 1:1.0.0), libnotify1 (>= 0.4.5), libnotify1-gtk2.10, libpam0g (>=
         0.99.7.1), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.18.0), libsm6, libstartup-notification0
         (>= 0.10), libx11-6, libxext6, libxklavier12 (>= 3.8), libxml2 (>=
         2.6.27), libxss1, libxxf86misc1, libxxf86vm1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4),
         gconf2 (>= 2.12.1-1), dbus, gnome-icon-theme (>= 2.15.90)
Recommends: gnome-power-manager, xscreensaver-data, xscreensaver-gl, rss-glx,
            libpam-gnome-keyring
Description: GNOME screen saver and locker
 gnome-screensaver is a screen saver and locker that aims to have simple, sane
 and secure defaults, and be well integrated with the GNOME desktop.

 It is designed to support, among other things:

 * the ability to lock down configuration settings
 * translation into other languages
 * user switching
Homepage: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeScreensaver

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

With Seb, have confirmed that this only affects systems using GTK_IM_MODULE=xim, not those using the default.

It should still be corrected, but I think the original motivation for using xim on my system no longer applies (gtk compose map missing latin2 compose sequences), so I'm going to unset this locally.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue seems to be fixed in karmic now