Concept BUG, i think.

David Walker dave at mudsite.com
Sun Apr 17 15:24:37 UTC 2005


Yea I understood that, and know gksudo has that option.  I was just 
wondering if this is a fixable problem.  Like I am not sure if GTK has a 
gtk_window_not_focus() command to do a check in gksudo to prevent it 
from loosing focus.  At current it has only happened to me one time.

--
dave

Daniel Robitaille wrote:

>>i think the poster understands that, but has found a situatuion
>>where another dialog box steals the focuse from gksudo but can 
>>get any input, and there is no way to give focus back to gksudo.
>>    
>>
>
>Yes I know.   But the point of my email was to explain the background
>and gave him a way to go around the problem if he wants to.  The
>problem here is a race condition: not a computer one, but a human one.
> Essentially the user clicked on 2 things at nearly the same time (one
>application that needed root and then another application that brought
>up another window ) and that created the problem because of the order
>the 2 windows they created were displayed.
>
>Is this a design problem?  yes probably.
>
>  
>





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