KeePass / Bugs / #1561 Keepass2 autotype on mono 4.x is broken

Poil - 2016-08-10

ref. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/keepass2/+bug/1611652

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Dominik Reichl - 2016-09-15

status: open --> closed
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Dominik Reichl - 2016-09-15

I've tested KeePass 2.34 on Kubuntu 16.04; it works fine.

Make sure that you have installed the xdotool package.

Best regards,
Dominik

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Poil - 2016-09-22

We are 6 to have this configuration, we have xdotool and no it's not working :/

In keepass :
Add an entry
Title : the name of a terminal where you can type something in, example "Terminal"
User name : foo* Password : bar

In the terminal :
keepass2 --auto-type

On mono 3.2.8 (and before) you will have : foobar "enter"
On mono 4.x nothing

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Paul - 2016-09-22

Is your hot key still defined? Instructions for creating a hot key are shown on this page.
http://keepass.info/help/v2/setup.html#mono

cheers, Paul

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fwgs - 2016-09-22

I have a related issue. Some auto-typed chars output wrong.
'T' output '!', 'Q' output '&', '}' output '&'.

xdotool key on those key works though. So I'm guessing the issue is not from xdotool, too.

I am running KeePass2 2.32, mono 4.2.1 and xdotool 4.3.20150503.1 on ubuntu 16.04.1.

@Paul >Is your hot key still defined?
Yes, I've added the option --auto-type, no changes.

Edit: just tried upgrading to KeePass2 2.34, but no luck, same bug.

Last edit: fwgs 2016-09-22

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Paul - 2016-09-22

That's a very odd character substitution.
Can you create some test entries to Auto-Type just those characters?

cheers, Paul

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fwgs - 2016-09-22

Okay, so I went with the whole extended ASCII table. Posted the result at http://pastebin.com/raw/4rvVw7g0.

The first half gets buggy at times, the second half is fine.

Edit: how about with the hex too ? http://pastebin.com/raw/9bs4PPUQ
Edit2: because why not http://pastebin.com/raw/7rB57iPt

Last edit: fwgs 2016-09-22

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Poil - 2016-09-22

I've installed a fresh Kubuntu 16.04
run Konsole: "apt install keepass2 xdotool"
run keepass2, add an entry "Konsole" foo/bar
run in the Konsole "keepass2 --auto-type" and nothing...

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Paul - 2016-09-23

Can you run xdtool manually to see where it's going wrong?
xdotool key #
xdotool key A

cheers, Paul

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fwgs - 2016-09-23

xdotool as a standalone still run without any issue, as I said in my first post.

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Poil - 2016-09-23

Hi,

This is working :

poil@ubuntu:~# xdotool search --class konsole behave %@ focus getwindowname getwindowpid 1568 poil@ubuntu:~# xdtool key a apoil@ubuntu:~# poil@ubuntu:~# xdtool key A Apoil@ubuntu:~# poil@ubuntu:~# xdtool key a apoil@ubuntu:~#
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Paul - 2016-09-23

@fwgs
Can you test with keysyms? List of keysyms.
xdotool key 0x0023

@Poil
Are you sure you have a KeePass Title that matches the window you are using?
Create a KeePass entry that matches the konsole window you are using and then try: keepass2 --auto-type

cheers, Paul

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Poil - 2016-09-23

Yes and all is working when I downgrade Mono ...

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Paul - 2016-09-23

So it's some kind on mono bug. Not a lot we can do about that.

cheers, Paul

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Poil - 2016-09-23

Hum, Dominik Reichl says it's working for him, but what test did he do ?

I've already open a bug on mono project https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=43362.
But my level in C# is near zero, I'm unable to make a poc about this bug :)

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Paul - 2016-09-23

Maybe a less recent version of mono.

cheers, Paul

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JN - 2017-05-22

Goodness I am sick of bugs in Linux packages and, especially, of difficulty getting and keeping KeePass working. It's almost enough to drive one back to LastPass.

Can anyone advise where we should report this mono bug, please?

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JN - 2017-05-22

Also, discovering which version of Mono one has installed is not at all easy. For, look at this:

Does this mean I have version 4 installed, or 5? I think the answer is: 4. But where do I get a lower version - and which should I get - of Mono?

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echo "
Package: *mono*
Pin: release n=xenial
Pin-Priority: -10

Package: *mono*
Pin: release n=trusty
Pin-Priority: 900

Package: *keepass*
Pin: release n=xenial
Pin-Priority: -10

Package: *keepass*
Pin: release n=trusty
Pin-Priority: 900

Package: libdbus-glib2.0-cil
Pin: release n=xenial
Pin-Priority: -10

Package: libdbus-glib2.0-cil
Pin: release n=trusty
Pin-Priority: 900

Package: libdbus2.0-cil
Pin: release n=xenial
Pin-Priority: -10

Package: libdbus2.0-cil
Pin: release n=trusty
Pin-Priority: 900

Package: libgtk2.0-cil
Pin: release n=xenial
Pin-Priority: -10

Package: libgtk2.0-cil
Pin: release n=trusty
Pin-Priority: 900

Package: libglib2.0-cil
Pin: release n=xenial
Pin-Priority: -10

Package: libglib2.0-cil
Pin: release n=trusty
Pin-Priority: 900

Package: libnunit-cil-dev
Pin: release n=xenial
Pin-Priority: -10

Package: libnunit-cil-dev
Pin: release n=trusty
Pin-Priority: 900" > /etc/apt/preferences.d/mono.pref

# add PPA jtaylor-keepass-trusty & dlech-keepass2-plugins-trusty
sed "s/xenial/trusty/g" /etc/apt/source.list > /etc/apt/source.list.d/trusty.list
# perhaps you will need to pin-prio a -10 all other trusty 

apt remove mono* libmono* --purge
dpkg -l |grep ^rc | awk '{print $2 }' | xargs dpkg -P

apt update
apt install keepass2 keepass2-plugin-libdbus mono-devel

# for Unity
apt install keepass2-plugin-application-menu

# for gnome & co
apt install keepass2-plugin-application-indicator

JN - 2017-05-22

Here's some good news.

I have discovered that the version of Mono recommended by the Mono project for my distribution works (i.e. solves the autotype problem). Previously I had been messing around with - and perhaps at the time needed? - various betas and third-party builds (although admittedly I am still using a slightly custom version of the KeePass package itself - but I think the following will work even if one isn't).

My distribution - and desktop environment - are: Mint 18.1 x64 Cinnamon. That version of Mint is based on Ubuntu Xenial a.k.a. Ubuntu 16.0.4. The version of Mono that is recommended for Xenial can be seen, and downloaded, here.

Uninstalling previous versions of Mono might prove hard. It did for me. However, if you are patient and know what you are doing it should be doable. I managed it.

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Paul - 2017-05-23

Thanks for the update.

cheers, Paul

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JN - 2017-05-23

I spoke too soon: once again, autotype has stopped working. However, I did notice that my request to be directed to somewhere to report the bug has been answered - by Poil, above. Yet, that link does not seem to point to a working webpage.

Also: I tried the script that Poil kindly posted above (once I had realised it was a script, and once I'd adjusted it to my distribution and to my needs - and should its mentions of 'source.list' be 'sources.list'?). That script, so far as I understand it, ensures that a certain version of Mono, and only that version, is installed. But the script didn't work for me: it gave a load of errors about packages not being available.

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JN - 2017-05-23

Here is a working link to the bug report (the report mentioned above by Poil): https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=43362

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JN - 2017-06-04

Given that, in the end, I couldn't get Poil's script, or my own versions of it, to work, is there anything I can do to get autotype working? Is there perhaps some better version of the script, or somewhere I can download Mono packages that don't break autotype, or some new version of Mono that fixed the problem? Thanks.

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