Bug 2491

Summary:	x11-ssh-askpass (ssh-add) sets incorrect flags in WM_SIZE_HINTS
Product:	Portable OpenSSH	Reporter:	Dieter Plaetinck <dieter>
Component:	ssh-add	Assignee:	Assigned to nobody <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED INVALID
Severity:	trivial	CC:	djm, dtucker
Priority:	P5
Version:	7.1p1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux

Description Dieter Plaetinck 2015-11-04 12:53:43 AEDT

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!

Comment 1 Dieter Plaetinck 2015-11-04 13:36:47 AEDT

direct link to the most relevant email in that thread:
http://infra.in.zekjur.net/archives/i3-discuss/2015-November/002245.html

Comment 2 Damien Miller 2015-11-13 13:22:13 AEDT

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.

Comment 3 Darren Tucker 2015-11-13 13:43:39 AEDT

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

Comment 4 Dieter Plaetinck 2015-11-15 20:22:54 AEDT

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.

Comment 5 Damien Miller 2018-04-06 12:26:44 AEST

Close all resolved bugs after release of OpenSSH 7.7.