Comment 3 for bug 810805
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| Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote Re: Cursor does not show up in password field | #3 |
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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.