Caret does not show up in password field

[Jason Warner]

The keyboard cursor does not show when password field has focus.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: lightdm 0.4.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-5.6-generic-pae 3.0.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-5-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jul 15 09:23:34 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lightdm
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-06-14 (30 days ago)

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report. Confirmed in Oneiric

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

There was a similar issue in the greeter at one point where the focus was not in the window at all. After a lot of investigation it magically disappeared in a GTK+ update...

What I suspect is happening here is GTK+ does not consider the window to have focus, though it does have focus according to X (which is why you can type into the field). When the problem occurred before using gtk_window_present would cause the window to get focus and a code inspection of GTK+ shows that this does do some different things.

This is probably all a side effect of not having a window manager. I was investigating how hard it would be to implement a trivial WM to work around this. AFAICT GTK+ is supposed to work without a WM though.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

See also bug 827749 which is about the keyboard focus not returning to the password entry.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Fixed for 0.0.6

[kurt christensen (kurt-c)]

I haven this problem in 14.04.