Bug#277723: gksu: locks up KDE desktop until dismissed.

[Yuen Boon Jee]

Dear Gustavo,

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 01:39 pm, Gustavo Noronha Silva
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Upon activating gksu (e.g. through launching
synaptic)
> > the KDE desktop (KDE
> > 3.3) will be locked up until the gksu window is
> > dismissed, i.e. cannot change
>
> This is expected behavior. gksu will grab mouse and
keyboard focus so
> that no other X application can 'listen' to what's
being typed in the
> password field.
Ah, my bad then. Didn't expect the new version to stop
other programs as it 
previously didn't (version 1.2.0 I think?).

>
> > Also, on rare occasions depending on the mouse
focus
> > policy (focus follows
> > mouse), the gksu window might get overlapped by
other
> > windows.
>
> If you can give me more information on this one I
can try to make this
> rarity a 'never happens'... can you give me some
steps to reproduce it?
Hmm, tried this out again. I think I can give you the
steps, that will trigger 
it more frequently.

1) Add synaptic to the quick launcher applet (I guess
you can just place a 
program shortcut anywhere for easy access).
2) Bring up another window on the desktop, e.g. the
file manager (used to 
overlap the gksu window, you might not want to cover
it fully).
3) Click on the synaptic icon to launch it.
4) While synaptic is loading (before gksu pops up),
keep clicking on the file 
manager window to change the focus to it.
5) If the timing is right, gksu will pop up, but
before the desktop is frozen 
the file manager window will be raised above the gksu
window.

Although the gksu window is hidden, it still correctly
has the keyboard focus, 
but it is annoying unless you know about it to disable
it.

>
> Thanks,

Regards,
BJ



		
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