Package: gksu Version: 1.2.3-2 I've seen various bug reports of GKSu hiding between other windows, seeming to lock X, but still reacting to ESC; I've also had this before. However I think this one is new. My apologies if it's not.
Here's what I do: - Run 'gksu synaptic' in a Konsole (I'd use the KDE menu but I immediately switched over to kdesu when this happened the first time, see below) - Immediately start switching windows with the KasBar - As soon as GKSu grabs X, KDE will freeze without showing the GKSu window (judging from the bug reports this is a known problem) - After some time, the GKSu window will show up; however it does *not* have the focus, and I haven't managed to dismiss it in any way. - The first time this happened, neither Ctrl-Alt-F1 nor Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (!) allowed me to get out of this predicament. Unfortunately I cannot reproduce this; you'll have to trust me ;-) Of course with Ctrl-Alt-F1 working, you can just kill the gksu process from the linux console and remove the lock file. I suppose a running SSH server would have saved me too. Not sure what you can do about this, as I'm not into X programming. Maybe GKSu could somehow detect that it lost focus (which as far as I can see should never happen) and quit with an error message? Some relevant versions: ii gksu 1.2.3-2 graphical frontend to su ii libgksu1.2-0 1.2.5a-1 library providing su and sudo functionality ii libgksuui1.0-0 1.0.3-2 a graphical fronted to su library ii kdebase 3.3.2-1 KDE Base metapackage ii x-window-syste 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System core components Greetings Thomas -- GPG key ID 'BB66CCFD' available from hkp://subkeys.pgp.net or: http://n.ethz.ch/student/trast/public-key.asc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
