[1097] in athena10
Re: window raising & screen blanking on debathena-cluster
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Mon Feb 9 15:50:16 2009
Cc: testers@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0902061655010.32719@vinegar-pot.mit.edu>
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 15:48:45 -0500
Nor had I, but it's there and reproducible. It's also a pretty big
problem, IMHO. I would be really upset if I locked my screen and then
came back to my workstation only to find that the contents of my web
browser had been displayed to the entire cluster.
-Jon
On Feb 7, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Tim Abbott wrote:
> I've never heard of this particular problem, but I'll mention that
> zwgc in
> Debian has in the past had the property that it always gained focus
> and
> went to the top in certain window managers. But that problem was
> fixed a
> long time ago in Athena, and was fixed in Debian when the 2007-07-19
> zephyr release went into Debian.
>
> -Tim Abbott
>
> On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Jonathan Reed wrote:
>
>> I'm seeing weird behavior on my Debathena cluster machine. If I
>> let the
>> screen saver activate (or explicitly choose "Lock Screen" from the
>> panel
>> menu), and then send myself a personal zephyr, it raises gnome-
>> panel and the
>> most-recently-active window on the screen on TOP of the screen
>> saver. The
>> instant I touch a key or move the mouse, they disappear, however
>> this is a
>> pretty serious problem, particularly if the user has anything
>> sensitive on
>> their screen.
>>
>> I also tested this with paco and got the same result, so I know
>> this isn't due
>> to any funky Xresources or zwgc.desc customizations I have.
>>
>> Before I file something in Jira, is this known and/or is there any
>> testing
>> anybody wants me to do?
>>
>> -Jon
