On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:17:08AM +0100, Thomas Adam <[email protected]>
wrote:
> > To debug that, you could enable AllowClosedownGrabs and/or
> > AllowDeactivateGrabs (see xorg.conf(5)) and try those keycombos when
> > it happens, to see if they break the grab.
>
> Unfortunately not with Xorg 1.6.1 -- these options went away [1] with
wtf!
seems with dbus and hald, xorg now safely goes the route of all things gnome.
> it's still interesting). Plus, I didn't ever have these settings
> enabled in my xorg.conf file -- so unless one or both of these were
> enabled on my behalf, we'll never know.
no, they were off by default, only alt-ctrl-bkspc was enabled by default,
afaicr.
but they were extremely handy to debug programs and make screenshots, or
simply to get out of a grab for other usability reasons.
> > Could be a bug in X (given it seems to happen with new xorgs only) or
> > in urxvt (grabs are tricky, but I would expect some emssage) or in
> > both.
>
> Alas, there isn't one, despite my best efforts, this is a real problem
> for rxvt-unicode -- since I can well envisage more and more people
> "complaining" about this here, when frankly it is looking like an Xorg
> bug more and more. For now, I will have to do away with the popup menu
> for rxvt-unicode and rely on setting everything via Xdefaults
> beforehand. At least until this problem resolves itself.
Well, at least somebody is/was actually using the menus... :)
> I will keep this list informed of any Xorg progress I hear of -- if
> that's where the problem lies and the folks at Xorg resurrect the
> ActiveGrab stuff, or whatever replaces it.
I will investigate this as soon as I can reproduce it, which should be
doable.
If it's some issue in xorg, then I guess there is nothing rxvt-unicode can
do about it, though.
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