#498607 pidgin: Emergent windows asking for password steal focus ones from others

Package:
pidgin
Source:
pidgin
Description:
graphical multi-protocol instant messaging client
Submitter:
Noel David Torres Taño
Date:
2026-07-06 17:45:06 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#498607#5
Date:
2008-09-11 13:18:57 UTC
From:
To:
Each time I start pidgin I have to send passwords to several servers in order to authenticate myself. The emergent windows that appear for the password to be introduced in them came in random
order, depending on the order in which the handshaking with servers do actually happen each time. That is no uncorrect behaviour, but a fixed order for active accounts would be better. But the
problem is that this behaviour causes that the windows appear while one is writing his password in other window, and since they're all windows that steal the focus it is very normal that you wrote
the last letters of the password in the wrong window and striking enter, causing uncorrect password to be sent to these servers and, worse as it can be, these server receiving clues about your
passwords on other servers.