This is still an issue with pinentry 0.9.1

pinentry GTK-2 is still failing to accept any keyboard input when invoked with
GTK_IM_MODULE=scim

On a debian system, i did:

   apt install --no-install-recommends scim scim-gtk-immodule

Here is a transcript of pinentry being invoked: there is additional scim-related
output:

0 dkg@alice:~$ GTK_IM_MODULE=scim pinentry-gtk-2
OK Your orders please
GETPIN
Loading simple Config module ...
Creating backend ...
Loading socket FrontEnd module ...
Starting SCIM as daemon ...
Loading socket Config module ...
Creating backend ...
Loading x11 FrontEnd module ...
GTK Panel of SCIM 1.4.15

Starting SCIM as daemon ...

at this point, no keyboard entry works in the module at all.

This is https://bugs.debian.org/750521

Thanks for the great minimal working example.

I tried to reproduce this and I could.

However, when I run

  GTK_IM_MODULE=scim gedit

I can't enter any text either. I have to activate scim by pressing it's hotkey
(control-space). Then I can type as usual. pinentry grabs the keyboard to
prevent other applications from snooping the password. I guess this is
inhibiting scim/scim bridge from accessing the keyboard input.

This might also be due to our custom secure entry widget. See this bug report:

T1239

If I disable the secure entry widget (see patch) and start pinentry as follows:

  GTK_IM_MODULE=scim gtk+-2/pinentry-gtk-2

then I'm able to enter text in the same way as with gedit.

This means that the problem is not due to grabing the keyboard, but most likely
due to our secure entry widget. Note: the secure entry widget is based on a
2004 copy of GtkEntry so it's not surprising that it doesn't support some modern
features.

D271: 610_0001-Using-a-simple-GtkEntry-instead-of-our-custom-implem.patch

So what should we do about this? Do we need to keep gtksecentry.* in sync with
upstream's gtkentry somehow?

We implemented support for the GTK_IM_MODULE ebvar before 2007 thus I think this
is more likely a regression. In fact I recall that Marcus once showed me a
problem with his SCIM installation while using Pinentry.

I replaced our custom entry widget with the standard Gtk+ widget. This should
fix this problem. Please test and let me know either way. Thanks!

0.9.6 has been released - does it work?

I've just tested 0.9.6 using the same procedure as T1777 (dkg on May 14 2015, 12:01 AM / Roundup), and i have no
problem entering text either. I think this is resolved. sorry for the delay in
feedback.

dkg: No worries. Thanks for testing.