GUI: Focus stealing

[David Balažic]

Ubuntu 10.10 desktop i386, fresh install (over Wubi):

I was typing a command in gnome-terminal and a split second before I pressed ENTER a dialog appeared.
And disappeared immediately, since I "confirmed" it.

It looked like an auth dialog asking for a password (prefilled).
Or maybe it was the NM dialog asking for the WLAN password.
Or maybe something completely else.
I have no clue, as it stole the focus and the keyboard input and disappeared before I could read it or even realize it's existence.

[IKT (ikt)]

Are you able to see in the auth.log if there is anything that stands out?

[David Balažic (xerces8)]

No, but I am not sure what to look for.

[David Balažic (xerces8)]

Still happens in Ubuntu 11.04 (unity)

[IKT (ikt)]

Fresh install or upgrade?

If it happens and you believe it is a password authentication box there should be a line in auth.log from very recently with what authenticated.

[David Balažic (xerces8)]

I believe it is general. Happens with all types of windows or dialogs.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for Ubuntu because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[David Balažic (xerces8)]

Focus stealing is a general problem.

You can not just pretend it went away just because nobody made any more comments to the bug report.

[IKT (ikt)]

The status is set to incomplete when there isn't enough information to investigate the issue and this will automatically expire the bug report after a certain period when there is no activity, this helps ensure we are always working on the latest bugs.

The problem is that I can't duplicate your GUI focus stealing issue, which suggests it might be a hardware problem or something else that I don't know about. Do you still have the issue if you install ubuntu on another computer?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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