[Bug 338489] Re: AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken

2012-10-22 Thread Timo Aaltonen
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 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. htt

[Bug 338489] Re: AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken

2012-10-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
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 r

[Bug 338489] Re: AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken

2012-08-21 Thread cfdman
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 wa

[Bug 338489] Re: AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken

2010-12-31 Thread dcam
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 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 338489] Re: AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken

2010-12-30 Thread dcam
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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bu

[Bug 338489] Re: AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken

2010-12-30 Thread MMlosh
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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ub

[Bug 338489] Re: AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken

2010-10-18 Thread lmartinking
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 http://w

[Bug 338489] Re: AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken

2010-05-05 Thread dcam
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 workab

[Bug 338489] Re: AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken

2010-05-05 Thread dcam
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. -- AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338489 You received this bug

[Bug 338489] Re: AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken

2010-05-05 Thread Josh Lee
** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338489 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@

[Bug 338489] Re: AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken

2010-05-05 Thread Josh Lee
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. -- AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338489 You rece

[Bug 338489] Re: AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken

2010-05-05 Thread Bryce Harrington
[This is an automatic notification.] 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

[Bug 338489] Re: AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken

2009-08-13 Thread Bryce Harrington
** Tags added: jaunty -- AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338489 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/lis

[Bug 338489] Re: AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken

2009-06-21 Thread Chris Cowan
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 bee

[Bug 338489] Re: AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken

2009-06-17 Thread dcam
That's certainly helpful, avoids a reboot, but if you're wanting to debug menu code that involves a grab, the above doesn't let you do it, rather you have to kill the process you were wanting to debug. -- AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338489 You received this bug

[Bug 338489] Re: AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken

2009-06-17 Thread maq
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 u

[Bug 338489] Re: AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken

2009-05-26 Thread dcam
If anyone can't wait (like me), I've built an Xorg binary for Ubuntu Jaunty that restores this AllowDeactivateGrabs functionality and also includes the patch provided in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/334626 that stops regular server crashing, especially when runnin

[Bug 338489] Re: AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken

2009-05-25 Thread dcam
See this thread I raised on the xorg mailing list http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2009-May/thread.html#45750 -- AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338489 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubunt

[Bug 338489] Re: AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken

2009-05-25 Thread dcam
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. -- AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338489 You received this bug notificati

[Bug 338489] Re: AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken

2009-05-25 Thread dcam
Upstream bug seems to be http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21652 ** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #21652 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21652 -- AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338489 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 338489] Re: AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken

2009-05-25 Thread Ville Leino
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. -- AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338489 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 338489] Re: AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken

2009-05-25 Thread dcam
I see the same thing This is incredibly lousy... X grab hangs are a regular occurrence when debugging GUI applications. If you don't have a network connection then as far as I know, there's no alternative but to power the machine down and suffer potential loss of data. I don't understand wh

[Bug 338489] Re: AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken

2009-05-09 Thread Justin Clift
Ouch. Just upgraded to Jaunty and went looking for how to deactivate screengrabs, hitting this exact problem. Does anyone have or know a workaround? This is critical core functionality for Salasaga, an eLearning creation package that's already available through Add/Remove. Without the ability t

[Bug 338489] Re: AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken

2009-03-06 Thread Tom Jaeger
The option has been removed from the X server: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=5e43cd28692bc05cac80f38b47104a26c0524385 -- AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338489 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which i

[Bug 338489] Re: AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken

2009-03-05 Thread Bryce Harrington
** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338489 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.u

[Bug 338489] Re: AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken

2009-03-05 Thread Josh Lee
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23527276/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "LsHal.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23527277/LsHal.txt ** Attachment added: "LsMod.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23527278/LsMod.txt ** Attachment added: "LsPc