On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Fred <[email protected]> wrote: > This bug may get fixed, but there is still an underlaying issue here. > How can one little application freeze the WHOLE desktop? > Something is seriously wrong here.
XGrabPointer. http://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/input/XGrabPointer.html It is fundamental to the design of X that if something needs to collect pointer motion (like a menu) then it needs to stop other things from doing so/ > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are a member of Indicator > Applet Developers, which is the registrant for Application Menu > Indicator. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/603482 > > Title: > Desktop freezes if new window takes focus while menu is open > > Status in The Application Menu: > Confirmed > Status in “indicator-appmenu” package in Ubuntu: > Triaged > > Bug description: > appmenu-gtk 0.1.1-0ubuntu1, indicator-appmenu 0.0.8-0ubuntu1 > appmenu-gtk 0.1.7-0ubuntu1, indicator-appmenu 0.0.9-0ubuntu1, Ubuntu Maverick > > 1. Focus a window for which indicator-appmenu displays the window menus, > e.g. Character Map or Calculator. > 2. Start "Take Screenshot". > 3. Choose "Grab the whole desktop" and "Grab after a delay of" 5 seconds, > and choose "Take Screenshot". > 4. Within 5 seconds, open any of the window menus for the previously-focused > window, and wait for the remaining time to elapse. > > What happens: > * A "Save Screenshot" window takes focus (with a thumbnail showing that Take > Screenshot successfully snapped the open menu). > * The menu then goes blank, and the entire screen becomes unresponsive. > > What should happen: As soon as the Save Screenshot window takes focus, > the menu you had open should automatically close, because it is no > longer a menu for the focused window. > > To recover after testing: > 5. Ctrl Alt F1. > 6. At the console, enter "killall indicator-applet-appmenu". If your volume > was up, you should hear a twang sound. > 7. Alt F7. > 8. In the error alert, choose "Reload". > > > -- Sam Spilsbury -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/603482 Title: Desktop freezes if new window takes focus while menu is open -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
