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lykwydchykyn

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Registered: 2013-07-11

Posts: 91

awesome wm vs. x11-ssh-askpass vs. virt-manager

I use awesome wm on arch 64bit.
I also use virt-manager for virtualization.

Virt-manager depends on x11-ssh-askpass.

x11-ssh-askpass has a bug that causes awesome to hang in a very bad way (cf http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.wi … ome/10394).

I don't really want or need x11-ssh-askpass, but since virt-manager requires it I have to have it installed.  When it's installed, programs like git and others seem to want to use it, and this causes my WM to lock up.

I've added this to my .bashrc:

unset SSH_ASKPASS

That seems to fix it for things run in a terminal emulator, but other things (like Emacs magit mode) keep trying to use x11-ssh-askpass. 

Is there a solution to be found here?

alex.novitsky

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Registered: 2014-03-25

Posts: 1

Re: awesome wm vs. x11-ssh-askpass vs. virt-manager

There is the bug in Awesome WM v.3.5.2
Fixed in this commit.
In Awesome <= 3.5.2 ssh-askpass-fullscreen from AUR can be used instead of x11-ssh-askpass.

 yaourt -S ssh-askpass-fullscreen --noconfirm
 sudo ln -s /usr/lib/openssh/ssh-askpass-fullscreen /usr/lib/ssh/x11-ssh-askpass

Last edited by alex.novitsky (2014-03-25 03:47:05)

lykwydchykyn

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Registered: 2013-07-11

Posts: 91

Re: awesome wm vs. x11-ssh-askpass vs. virt-manager

Thanks, I'll try it out.

lykwydchykyn

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Registered: 2013-07-11

Posts: 91

Re: awesome wm vs. x11-ssh-askpass vs. virt-manager

Looks like the bug is fixed now, ssh-askpass starts up successfully.  i kind of wish it didn't, but I can live with it.