Screenkey

The only missing piece of this terrific application.

Asked by niclas.kroon

Hello mates!
Love this application! Its absolutely terrific! Just what i've been looking for. However, the only thing this program misses is a feature which does not print "passwords". Its kinda annoying when doing a screen-cast and then sudo asks about password and you have to print it and it shows up in the little text-bar. Just a tips, maybe you could figure out a way to solve it. Then this application would be fulfilled :)

Cheers!
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Pablo SEMINARIO (pabluk) said : 		#1

Yes, I can understand for me is the same, for the moment I just found some partial solutions to the problem. So far the only solution I found is to use the checkbox from the menu in the application icon.

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Best Pablo SEMINARIO (pabluk) said : 		#2

Good news niclas,

I've added a mechanism to detect if sudo or gksudo is running and thus not show keys.
This feature only works when you use sudo, but, for example, does not prevent you to enter a password in Firefox or other applications with different UI. However, in most cases I think the problem is with sudo.
For now, this change is included in the development branch (trunk), but will be included in the next release.

Thanks for your suggestion!

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niclas.kroon (niclas-kroon) said : 		#3

This is absolutly amazing! This really makes me happy! Thanx for fixing this, and it was my pure pleasure to suggest it :) And like you stated the only important thing is to "hide" the password used while using gksudo alt. sudo. Perfect! Great work! Im impressed! :D
Cheers!