guake Guake interferes with password-store

Describe the bug

It looks like guake is interfering with the password-store command line tool. Upon trying to run pass show -c path/to/whatever, the command hangs for several minutes/forever. The problem occurs regardless of the shell used (zsh, bash), it does not occur in Gnome terminal.

Expected behavior pass show -c whatever copies a string to clipboard.

Observed behavior Upon running pass show -c whatever from guake, the command hangs for several minutes, an app with the title "Unknown" is added to the dock (with a gear icon), clicking it "unfreeze" the command and the expected behavior finally occurs.

It stopped working as expected after upgrading to Ubuntu 22.04 from 21.04 this morning.

$ guake --support

Guake Version: 3.8.5

Vte Version: 0.68.0

Vte Runtime Version: 0.68.0

GTK+ Version: 3.24.33

GDK Backend: <GdkX11.X11Display

Desktop Session: ubuntu

Display: :0

RGBA visual: True

Composited: True

Monitor: 0 - XWAYLAND0
- Geometry: 1920 x 1200 % 2 at 0, 0
- Size: 300 x 190 mm²
- Primary: True
- Refresh rate: 59.964 Hz
- Subpixel layout: unknown

Additional environment info

$ uname -a

Linux foobar 5.15.0-27-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 14 04:55:28 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ cat /usr/share/gnome/gnome-version.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gnome-version>
 <platform>42</platform>
 <minor>0</minor>
 <micro>0</micro>
 <distributor>Ubuntu</distributor>
 <!--<date></date>-->
</gnome-version>

$ zsh --version

zsh 5.8.1

$ bash --version

GNU bash, version 5.1.16(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Gnome terminal version

Version 3.44.0 for GNOME 42
A terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop
Using VTE version 0.68.0 +BIDI +GNUTLS +ICU +SYSTEMD

$ ps fauxw

\_ /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/guake
|   \_ /usr/bin/zsh
|       \_ bash /usr/bin/pass show -c path/to/whatever
|           \_ bash /usr/bin/pass show -c path/to/whatever
|               \_ wl-paste -n
|               \_ base64

May 02 '22 09:05 stderr-mila

I'm also experiencing this on 22.04. Another way to get around this is to minimize guake (which seems to accomplish the same thing as clicking the "Unknown" notification). Usually when I want to use -c I intend to minimize anyways so it does work better for my workflow.

May 07 '22 01:05 dehli

Wanted to follow-up that as of this morning I'm no longer experiencing this bug. I updated / upgraded various dependencies via apt-get and the issue has disappeared.

May 12 '22 11:05 dehli

Given the timings that this bug surfaced and disappeared for users, closing because this sounds like an ubuntu 22.04 issue

May 12 '22 15:05 Davidy22

Hello,

A couple of months and a series of system update later, I am still facing the exact same issue. As mentioned in my initial post, the issue does not occur in Gnome Terminal.

Is there any way that I could help debug this further?

@dehli could you share your output of the various commands in my "Additional environment info" section?

$ guake --support

Guake Version: 3.8.5

Vte Version: 0.68.0

Vte Runtime Version: 0.68.0

GTK+ Version: 3.24.33

GDK Backend: <GdkX11.X11Display

Desktop Session: ubuntu

Display: :0

RGBA visual: True

Composited: True

Monitor: 0 - XWAYLAND4
- Geometry: 1920 x 1200 % 2 at 0, 0
- Size: 300 x 190 mm²
- Primary: True
- Refresh rate: 59.964 Hz
- Subpixel layout: unknown

Additional environment info

$ uname -a

Linux foobar 5.15.0-46-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 4 18:03:25 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ cat /usr/share/gnome/gnome-version.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gnome-version>
 <platform>42</platform>
 <minor>4</minor>
 <micro>0</micro>
 <distributor>Ubuntu</distributor>
 <!--<date></date>-->
</gnome-version>

$ zsh --version

zsh 5.8.1

$ bash --version

GNU bash, version 5.1.16(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Gnome terminal version

Version 3.44.0 for GNOME 42
A terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop
Using VTE version 0.68.0 +BIDI +GNUTLS +ICU +SYSTEMD

$ ps fauxw

\_ /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/guake
|   \_ /usr/bin/zsh
|       \_ bash /usr/bin/pass show -c path/to/whatever
|           \_ bash /usr/bin/pass show -c path/to/whatever
|               \_ wl-paste -n
|               \_ base64

Sep 05 '22 22:09 stderr-mila

Hi @stderr-mila, I unfortunately wiped my computer and reinstalled Ubuntu and am seeing the same issue as you as of today. I did some investigation this morning and it seems that the issue has to do with wl-clipboard. I upgraded from 2.0.0 to 2.1.0 and am still seeing the issue. I'll continue investigating and see if I can figure anything else out.

echo foo | wl-copy # This hangs for me until I minimize Guake

Sep 06 '22 18:09 dehli

Hey @dehli , echoing strings to wl-copy and minimizing guake does insert said string to clipboard.

But that is not the case with pass show -c path/to/whatever. Upon minimizing guake, pass does output Copied path/to/whatever to clipboard. Will clear in 45 seconds. like it actually succeeded but the clipboard is empty.

The only way for me so far to get the password copied to clipboard is to click on one of the "Unknown app" icon. Interestingly enough, sometimes there is only one ; other times, there are two "Unknow app" (indistinguishable) and only one of them triggers the copy.

Nov 27 '22 21:11 stderr-mila

Reopening because original submitter is still experiencing issue. Probably the best way to figure out why this is happening is to install it myself, although I don't use it so may take a while to actually run into the issue.

Dec 03 '22 12:12 Davidy22

Adding up to the mystery: my usual setup is a laptop (single display), sometimes plugged to a USB-C hub with two external displays. Today, brought my laptop at work, plugged it to a smaller USB-C hub with only one external display, guake/password-store behaved as expected. Back to no external display, or back home (with 2), we are back to the above-mentioned issue.

This does not make any sense to me.

Jan 26 '23 16:01 stderr-mila

I am also seeing this on Arch.

Simple steps to reproduce using guake

$ wl-copy foo

This hangs until I toggle guake, when I return I see it has run.

$ wl-paste

Again hangs. After double-toggling I can see the output foo.

No hangs occur on my regular terminal emulator.

Apr 13 '23 07:04 alexheretic

Disabling the Stay on top option allows this to work. Presumably this mode is preventing wl-copy from "stealing focus".

This is a decent workaround for me. Perhaps adding a warning on the Stay on top option when running in a wayland/xwayland session would help.

Apr 14 '23 07:04 alexheretic

Thanks @alexheretic for the workaround! Just disabled that option and confirmed it works :+1:

Apr 14 '23 11:04 dehli

Can repro on NixOS with guake 3.9.0. Above workaround still required, but does work.

Feb 10 '24 09:02 tmplt