openssh bugs - Nov 2015 - [Bug 2491] New: x11-ssh-askpass (ssh-add) sets incorrect flags in WM_SIZE_HINTS

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2491

            Bug ID: 2491
           Summary: x11-ssh-askpass (ssh-add) sets incorrect flags in
                    WM_SIZE_HINTS
           Product: Portable OpenSSH
           Version: 7.1p1
          Hardware: All
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: trivial
          Priority: P5
         Component: ssh-add
          Assignee: unassigned-bugs at mindrot.org
          Reporter: dieter at plaetinck.be

x11-ssh-askpass (invoked via ssh-add) sets a size of 0x0 
in WM_SIZE_HINTS.

window managers using these hints are unable to properly size the
window, so it ends up looking - in my case, using i3 - way too small.

see
https://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/ICC/client-to-window-manager/wm-normal-hints.html

originally reported at
http://infra.in.zekjur.net/archives/i3-discuss/2015-November/002238.html

thanks for a great toolkit!

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are watching the assignee of the bug.

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2491

--- Comment #1 from Dieter Plaetinck <dieter at plaetinck.be> ---
direct link to the most relevant email in that thread:
http://infra.in.zekjur.net/archives/i3-discuss/2015-November/002245.html

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are watching the assignee of the bug.

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2491

Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |INVALID
                 CC|                            |djm at mindrot.org

--- Comment #2 from Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> ---
x11-ssh-askpass isn't maintained by the OpenSSH team.

It used to be maintained by Jim Knoble at
http://www.jmknoble.net/software/x11-ssh-askpass/ but that domain seems
to be gone now.

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are watching the assignee of the bug.
You are watching someone on the CC list of the bug.

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2491

Darren Tucker <dtucker at zip.com.au> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 CC|                            |dtucker at zip.com.au

--- Comment #3 from Darren Tucker <dtucker at zip.com.au> ---
The last copy of that site on archive.org
(https://web.archive.org/web/20131006102910/http://jmknoble.net/software/x11-ssh-askpass/)
says "The OpenBSD folks are maintaining their own port of
x11-ssh-askpass. It's available in the X11 section of OpenBSD's
anonymous CVS tree."  Which indeed seems to be true
(http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/xenocara/app/ssh-askpass/)
although by the "last touched it" rule, the maintainer is jsg@ rather
than the openssh team.

There's also a mirror on github although it looks like there's never
been any work done there.
https://github.com/sigmavirus24/x11-ssh-askpass

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are watching the assignee of the bug.
You are watching someone on the CC list of the bug.

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2491

--- Comment #4 from Dieter Plaetinck <dieter at plaetinck.be> ---
thanks for your help Damien and Darren. 
on further inspection, it seems the arch linux package pulls
x11-ssh-askpass from http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org (see
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/x11-ssh-askpass)
so perhaps i should direct my bug report there.

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are watching someone on the CC list of the bug.
You are watching the assignee of the bug.

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2491

Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #5 from Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> ---
Close all resolved bugs after release of OpenSSH 7.7.

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are watching someone on the CC list of the bug.
You are watching the assignee of the bug.