Applet password input option

[nerdyedad]

Hi community,

I'm writing a small applet for cinnamon and I need to prompt for password into the applet's configuration dialog.
Do it exist any option7property to set on the "entry" widget to hide text using a "password" character ?

Thanks for any hint on the topic and cheers,

NeD

[t42]

there is systemd-ask-password, see man 1, and plymouth for that matter as well.

[Drugwash]

I need to prompt for password into the applet's configuration dialog.

How are you building the configuration dialog? Is it using the default controls available through settings.json, or are you using some custom Python script(s)?
For the latter you can use Gtk.Entry's features. Example:

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cPass = Gtk.Entry(hexpand=True)
cPass.set_visibility(False)
cPass.set_invisible_char("●") # can be replaced with asterisk or anything else
cPass.set_input_purpose(Gtk.InputPurpose.PASSWORD)

and then to retrieve the actual text you do password = cPass.get_text().
You can also add a toggle button in case the user wants to see the actual password:

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cPasRev = Gtk.ToggleButton(label="👁") # pass revealer button
cPasRev.connect("toggled", passVisible, cPass)

def passVisible(self, button, passfield):
	"""Password field visibility toggle."""
	is_active = btn.get_active()
	passfield.set_visibility(is_active)

Hopefully you're not storing that password anywhere in plain text.

I may be wrong - please someone correct me if so - but I think there is no way to add a password-type entry control to the configuration dialog using the currently available default options provided by settings.json.