tags 514036 + upstream confirmed
forwarded 514036 http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19946
thanks
Hello Michel,
Am Mittwoch, den 04.02.2009, 09:30 +0100 schrieb Michel Dänzer:
> > > > when you open a menu of e.g. KDE konqueror, GNOME nautilus or firefox
> > > > then the screensaver wouldn't start in my tests. First I thought its
> > xscreensaver-5.07/driver/xscreensaver.c
> > ...
> > if (! blank_screen (si))
> > {
> > /* We were unable to grab either the keyboard or mouse.
> > This means we did not (and must not) blank the screen.
> > If we were to blank the screen while some other program
> > is holding both the mouse and keyboard grabbed, then
> > we would never be able to un-blank it! We would never
> > see any events, and the display would be wedged.
> > I don't know if opening a menu in an application grabs mouse and
> > keyboard.
>
> It does; it's the only way the menu can receive input events while the
> pointer is outside of it. AFAIK this is a pretty deep X11 design issue,
> so I'm afraid this can't be fixed easily. Feel free to bring it up
> upstream though.
OK. thx for this information.
I reported it to upstream:
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19946
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