#1106039 remmina: Input not being echoed on SSH connections

Package:
remmina
Source:
remmina
Description:
GTK+ Remote Desktop Client
Submitter:
John Lines
Date:
2025-07-02 09:09:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1106039#5
Date:
2025-05-19 06:37:45 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

I upgraded my desktop from Bookworm to Trixie, taking remmina from 1.4.29 to 1.4.39,
and found that when I connect to systems over SSH my input is not echoed, but is sent
as I can enter commands and see the results.

The target systems run bookworm, and when accessed from another system, still running
bookworm, behave as normal. I downloaded remmina and remmina-common 1.4.40 and installed
them and have the same result.

Making ssh connections to the same hosts via the ssh command from my desktop does echo
input.
#1106039#10
Date:
2025-06-07 05:59:24 UTC
From:
To:
I upgraded my laptop to trixie, and had the same symptoms, and then
installed the flatpak version to my desktop. That behaved the same,
suggesting an upstream bug.

Note that 1.4.29 - on another desktop, a Rapberry Pi 5, running
bookworm, still works as expected to the same target systems.
Installing the flatpak version (1.4.40) on that system has exactly the
same symptoms.
#1106039#15
Date:
2025-07-02 09:02:00 UTC
From:
To:
For remmina on bookworm with ssh connection to a Debian host (this one
running trixie, but the result depends on the remmina version of the
client, not the target - have tested with targets of real debian
bookworm, and Raspian bookworm, and MotionEye cameras etc.

**** stty on remmina 1.4.29


john@harmony:~$ stty
speed 38400 baud; line = 0;
-brkint -imaxbel
john@harmony:~$

note the stty command is echoed.

**** stty on remmmina 1.4.40

For remmina on trixie, with ssh to the same host.

john@harmony:~$
speed 38400 baud; line = 0;
lnext = <undef>; discard = <undef>; min = 1; time = 0;
-brkint -icrnl -imaxbel iutf8
-icanon -echo
john@harmony:~$

note there was an stty commnand which was not echoed. Following an
'stty echo' - not echoed, then get

john@harmony:~$ stty
speed 38400 baud; line = 0;
lnext = <undef>; discard = <undef>; min = 1; time = 0;
-brkint -icrnl -imaxbel iutf8
-icanon
john@harmony:~$


**** stty on local terminal

For completeness - on a normal terminal on the same host, no remmina
involved

john@harmony:~$ stty
speed 38400 baud; line = 0;
-brkint -imaxbel iutf8
john@harmony:~$


As it is too late in Trixie release for this to go to upstream for a
fix I suggest a NEWS item with the workaround of entering the
 stty echo
command if needed.