Bug 38574 - No way to identify which app has the stuck grab when stuck grab happens
Summary: No way to identify which app has the stuck grab when stuck grab happens
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: * Other (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
: medium normal
Assignee: Xorg Project Team
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
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Reported: 2011-06-22 09:25 UTC by Máirín Duffy
Modified: 2011-07-02 03:44 UTC (History)
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Description Máirín Duffy 2011-06-22 09:25:25 UTC
Hi, I apologize in advance for not knowing the correct component to file this under.

It would be nice if there was a way to ask X which application has the grab, so you don't have to play reverse russian roulette with your apps to try to recover your session when a stuck grab happens. :) The backstory:

I'm using Fedora 15 with GNOME 3. It appeared some app had a stuck grab, and I was unable to interact with anything on my desktop other than some of the applets in the upper right of the gnome 3 panel. The 'applications' overview did not work and alt+tab didn't work so the desktop was unusable. With the help of a GNOME dev we tried to kill apps one-by-one to try to figure out which had the stuck grab (killing gnome-shell and trying metacity --replace didn't help the situation either), but we couldn't figure it out. GNOME eventually completely crashed so I had to start a new session (which seemed to refresh things and work fine.)

In case it's helpful, I'm using the following versions of these xorg-x11 packages:

xorg-x11-server-common-1.10.2-1.fc15.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.10.2-1.fc15.x86_64

(let me know if there's a more appropriate way to let you know what i'm running)

Here's all the details on my hw http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_70af540e-e3c4-4bd1-abee-9b89c7feb456

Thanks!
Comment 1 Daniel Stone 2011-06-22 10:35:03 UTC
Ha, one step ahead of you: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2011-June/023508.html

I'm targeting this for 1.11.  Setting to RESOLVED/FIXED pre-emptively so this bug doesn't languish here ...
Comment 2 Máirín Duffy 2011-06-22 10:38:08 UTC
Wow, thanks Daniel!!!! :)
Comment 3 Daniel Stone 2011-06-22 10:46:26 UTC
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:38:08AM -0700, bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org wrote:
> Wow, thanks Daniel!!!! :)

No problem. :) Good timing!
Comment 4 Daniel Stone 2011-07-02 03:44:35 UTC
FWIW, this has been merged into 1.11 now, and we're working on getting the relevant definitions into xkeyboard-config so it will be selectable as a standard keyboard option.


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