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Wifi authentication has illegible text and crashes
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Description
Distribution
Mint 22.1
Package version
6.4.8
Graphics hardware in use
Onboard AMD
Frequency
Only occasionally
Bug description
The button that is meant to reveal the password yields black text on a black background. And then Cinnamon crashed to fallback mode.
Steps to reproduce
- Try to connect to a wifi network.
- See a password prompt. Start to type a password and then click the password reveal icon.
- The password shows up as black on dark background - which was largely illegible.
- Then almost immediately Cinnamon crashed to fallback mode.
Yet, 1-2 produce 3 and 4 only occasionally.
Expected behavior
Visible password.
No crash.
Additional information
My themes
Mouse: Adwaita
Applications: Mint-Y-Dark-Teal
Icons: 'Paper'
Desktop: Mint-Y-Dark-Teal
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the password-reveal flow on Mint 22.1 with Cinnamon 6.4.8, using the reported dark theme, and review the linked forum discussion for additional context. Done means the revealed password remains legible and Cinnamon does not crash into fallback mode, including across repeated attempts.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100