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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