#2706 closed defect (fixed)
disabling "Modal windows" in tray needs re-initialize
| Reported by: | mviereck | Owned by: | Antoine Martin |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | 4.0 |
| Component: | client | Version: | 3.0.x |
| Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
Related to #2255
Seen with xpra v3.0.8-r25889 and xpra v4.0-r25629 on Debian bullseye.
I have an application (kaptain) that sets the modal-windows flag and causes issues with keyboard and mouse focus.
Disabling modal windows fixes the issue.
I did not set --modal-windows=no, so I had to disable it in the xpra tray menu. But that does not fix the issue. I also have to re-initialize the windows using the tray menu. xpra should do that automatically.
Side note: Although I reported #2255 myself, I stumbled over the modal-windows issue again and it took me some time to figure out why the windows do not respond. For some days I used ssh -X instead of xpra because xpra was unusable.
It might be reasonable to set --modal-windows=no as a default because the solution for this issue is not obvious to users.
Change History (4)
comment:1 follow-up: 3 Changed 11 months ago by
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
comment:2 Changed 11 months ago by
Thank you!
Please note that I've also pointed on an xpra issue. Though, it might be obsolete now:
I had to disable [modal windows] in the xpra tray menu. But that does not fix the issue. I also have to re-initialize the windows using the tray menu. xpra should do that automatically.
Only disabling "Modal Windows" in the tray menu was not enough. xpra should automatically re-initialize the windows.
comment:3 Changed 11 months ago by
Replying to Antoine Martin:
The only way to avoid all these bugs is to only forward a single application per xpra session.
I would like to see how would that work in the future.
Maybe you could have a session that's not bound by screens (and instead is bound on some string), and then xpra could use >:2000 displays to host windows as-requested?
... but then you don't know which processes will spawn windows to split them
comment:4 Changed 5 weeks ago by
this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/2706
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Done in r25928.
We've had problems with modal windows (#1895) in the past: #2270, #2304.
But by not honouring the modal window flag, we're likely to encounter other bugs...
The only way to avoid all these bugs is to only forward a single application per xpra session.