I think it's important for the developer to consider some aspects of
this bug separately.
1. Wifi auth window pops up and steals focus before user is logged in.
It is frustrating to begin typing my password and to have my keyboard focus
swiped away so my hidden password is now hopelessly split across two
different
windows.
2. Wifi auth window _keeps_ focus from the Ubuntu login window until it
is dismissed.
I think the first one is an annoying bug, but it might be easy to
dismiss as "medium". But the second one is sometimes serious or
critical.
Consider that the login prompt appears on the display where the mouse
appears. On a multi-monitor setup, this is critical because some
monitors may not be usable yet. If I can't see my login screen, I have
learned that I can just move my mouse so it is on the primary display
and the login prompt will appear. But the WiFi password window does not
have this logic. When it steals focus from the login prompt, I can move
the mouse all I want, and the login prompt will appear or disappear from
my primary display. But until I cancel the wifi popup window, I cannot
type my password to login. If the wifi popup appeared on some unusable
monitor, I cannot see the window to dismiss it.
In my case my 2nd monitor is in portrait orientation so my display
properties have it rotated. But this rotation does not take effect
until after I log in. So when I get the popup window, my mouse on the
2nd display is rotated 90 degrees and the popup is quite difficult to
dismiss.
I can imagine this is a serious accessibility issue for users who have
other challenges seeing their display or using a mouse or keyboard as
efficiently as you do.
Please fix this. It has been with us for so long.
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