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Bug 810

Summary:	Desktop Lock loses focus and "locks you out" permanently
Product:	TDE	Reporter:	Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey>
Component:	tdebase	Assignee:	Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	blocker	CC:	bugwatch, darrella, slavek.banko
Priority:	P1
Version:	R14.0.0 [Trinity]
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Compiler Version:		TDE Version String:
Application Version:		Application Name:

Description Calvin Morrison 2012-01-22 16:54:31 CST

When our desktop lock is enabled, and a background dialog steals the focus, it is impossible to unlock the window. You cannot reselect the window because dialog boxes are persistent annoying buggers.

Reproduce it!

1.) sleep 10 && kdialog --error TEST.
2.) <manually lock the screen>

Be warned you can't get back in without killing it in a TTY.

Calvin

Comment 1 Calvin Morrison 2012-01-31 20:58:07 CST

could we use kwin's focus stealing prevention and set it with an window 
specific behavior? I've tried it but maybe i'm doing it incorrectly.

Comment 2 Timothy Pearson 2012-02-07 03:22:03 CST

This bug is (mostly) fixed in GIT hash 678bea5.

If the lock dialog loses focus, simply click on it to reactivate focus, as you would for any other window.

A separate enhancement bug report could be filed against the fact that the lock dialog can lose focus at all, however as you surmised the fix would have to come from deep within the window manager, and would in all likelihood not be portable to other window managers.