Bug#427406: Subject: Re: Bug#427406: metacity: No more mouse/keyboard-input possible after closing crashed application

Claudius Hubig claudiushubig at arcor.de
Mon Jun 4 19:09:57 UTC 2007


Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> wrote:
>Le dimanche 03 juin 2007 à 20:24 +0200, Claudius 'x2017' Hubig a écrit :  
>> To reproduce it, do the following:
>> * Crash an application to make it not answering; I use claws-mail and remove the
>>    network-connection while it is fetching mails, but it's the same with other apps.
>> * Click the "x" in the titlebar to close the window
>> * Wait a few seconds.
>> * Try to click something or to press a key - nothing happens.  
>
>I'm afraid I can't reproduce that. The "kill application" dialog appears
>and works as expected.
>Do you have examples of other applications leading to this behavior?
>This could be caused by the application grabbing the X server, making it
>impossible for metacity to display that window.  

Oh, sorry, I knew I forgot something. This happened with totem (tried
to play a file and crashed) and Opera (crashed due to the
acrobat-reader-plugin, I think). I tested it with Sylpheed-Claws and
other window managers like icewm and Enlightenment - they didn't
crash.

Additionally, "killall -9 metacity" resolves the problem when you
connect remotely using SSH.

Greetings,

Claudius

PS: I send several mails to 427406 at bugs.debian.org, but they don't
seem to have reached the BTS and thus don't show up on the web site.
Dunno why. :(
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