[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#394048: bluez-passkey-gnome: No popup when using fvwm

[Filippo Giunchedi]

Hello Roland,

On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 04:05:09PM +0100, Roland Rosenfeld wrote:
> I just installed blues-passkey-gnome and started bt-applet.  On my
> fvwm desktop nothing happened (no popup, no icon, nothing!).  I
> ignored this and started gnokii, the cellphone asked me for a PIN, I
> entered one and after this I see (using strace) that bt-applet seems
> to do something.  I expected that it would open a popup and ask me for
> a PIN, but nothing happend.  Some time later the job run into a
> timeout and the pairing failed.
> 
> I stopped bt-applet and compiled passkey-agent from bluez-utils
> source.  I started this program with a fixed key and now I'm able to
> access may cellphone via bluetooth.
> 
> So it seems, hat bluez-passkey-gnome either does not do anything or it
> needs a Gnome desktop or the like to open a popup and ask for the PIN.
> 
> Or did I simply miss something?
> 
> I just downloaded bluez-gnome 0.6, compiled it on my AMD64, installed
> it, but the behavior is the same, which means, that don't see anything
> (except via strace).

Do you mind retrying with current bluez-gnome? It is designed for gnome/metacity so I
don't know how it is supposed to react inside fvwm (i.e. if it shows popup or
not, my guess is not though)

Also, I think it might be appropriate to move this bug on his own.

filippo
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