Ubuntu 10.10 (maverick) reached end-of-life on April 10, 2012. Gmaingmaingmain03, as you probably now know passwords are not displayed in Ubuntu terminal windows. I'm sorry no one replied to you when you needed help. As what you reported wasn't a bug I'm closing this by changing the status of the report to "Invalid".
** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/831156 Title: unable to type passward for m-player codecs ie sundo in the terminal window Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: i wannted the codecs of m-player for ubuntu 10.10. i have downloaded it from mediaupload.com. when i extract all the files and run the file name instal.sh the terminal window opens and ask continue(y/n): i type y and the password is asked in the terminal window [sundo]password for gaurav: the i type the password "sundo" as per the instruction of installing it but nothing is happening ie whatever i type nothing appers on terminal window. please help any one who read this as i am new to use this type of os. please help. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: gnome-terminal 2.32.0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Mon Aug 22 09:34:26 2011 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007) ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash LANG=en_US.utf8 SourcePackage: gnome-terminal To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/831156/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp