right, closing as fixed, it's not going to be enabled by default but
it's there if you want to enable it.
** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed = Fix Released
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Xorg 1.11 and later restored the feature upstream, though it's not enabled by
default due to the security issues of being able to bypass screen locks with it.
http://who-t.blogspot.com/2012/01/xkb-breaking-grabs-cve-2012-0064.html has
more info, as do the more recent comments in the upstream bug
here is a workaround that works with both KDE and GNOME 2.
to ungrab the keyboard in KDE. you should see the show desktop icon on your
toolbar. right click it
then select the Show Desktop Settings click the field and type say Ctrl+Alt+d
(or any sequence that you
would like but you may not
There is another workaround mentioned in the X.org bug.
(http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21652)
compile a small library and LD_PRELOAD it. That seems to have fewer
drawback than global anti-screenlocker feature.
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But the workaround isn't effective because it breaks applications so you
can't use them properly - menus don't work properly, so in the debugging
scenario, you can't bring up the menu functionality you're wanting to
test.
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Debug key actions including one to deactivate grabs have very recently
been added to the upstream X source
See recent comments by Daniel Stone at
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21652
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I have created a patch against the xorg-xserver-1.9.0 sources which re-
enables grab deactivation and adds a little extra debug output (Should I
be using ErrorF(...) is there something better to use?). See below:
http://www.lumaki.com/pub/patches/xorg-enable-grab-deactivation/README.txt
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Hi Josh,
This bug was reported against an earlier version of Ubuntu, can you
test if it still occurs on Lucid?
Please note we also provide technical support for older versions of
Ubuntu, but not in the bug tracker. Instead, to raise the issue through
normal
apport-collect says Package xorg-server not installed and no hook
available, ignoring
But the behavior hasn't magically reverted itself over the last year.
This bug should either be reopened or marked as wontfix.
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This is a VERY SERIOUS problem for developers of GUI applications.
Given this problem, the only realistic debugging approach for GUI apps
is to run development environments in windows virtual machines.
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This is going to be present in every modern Xorg distro including lucid,
because AllowDeactivateGrabs has been INTENTIONALLY removed from X
(http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=5e43cd28692bc05cac80f38b47104a26c0524385)
, even though it provides features that appear to have no
** Tags added: jaunty
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I've been trying to find a way to allow the mouse to be released from a
program (UT2004) so that way I could do other things (answer IMs, browse
internet) and switch back to the game later without exiting it. I heard
this feature could let me do this easily, but then I find that the
feature has
I'm using this workaround on fedora9:
- the content of file /etc/acpi/actions/power.sh I modified to:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/chvt 1
- so after X stops responding I just press POWER button on desktop
machine and it will switch me to working terminal. Then I'm able to stop
some process (e.g. when I'm
Same issue here. This is a show stopper for GUI application development
since you cannot switch back to the debugger when a breakpoint is hit.
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I cannot work as a software developer without this functionality or some
workable alternative. I'm now running Intrepid's X server in Jaunty.
This issue needs fixing as a matter of urgency.
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See this thread I raised on the xorg mailing list
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2009-May/thread.html#45750
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