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Bug 810 - Desktop Lock loses focus and "locks you out" permanently
Summary: Desktop Lock loses focus and "locks you out" permanently
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: TDE
Classification: Unclassified
Component: tdebase (show other bugs)
Version: R14.0.0 [Trinity]
Hardware: All Linux
: P1 blocker
Assignee: Timothy Pearson
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Reported: 2012-01-22 16:54 CST by Calvin Morrison
Modified: 2012-10-19 15:50 CDT (History)
3 users (show)

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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.