Log Out / Restart / Shut Down dialogs can get lost behind other windows

[Daniel van Vugt]

Selecting one of these options from the indicator-session menu:
    Log Out...
    Restart...
    Shut Down...
gives you a dialog. However it is a modeless dialog so can easily get lost behind other windows. And they can't be found in the Unity Launcher either, because they're only dialogs.

The fix:
These dialog windows should be made modal.

Further notes:
The offending binary is: /usr/lib/indicator-session/gtk-logout-helper when run with either -l, -r or -s.
Notice however that the package gnome-session-bin provides alternative dialogs which are correctly displayed as modal:
gnome-session-save --shutdown-dialog
gnome-session-save --logout-dialog

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: indicator-session 0.2.17-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jul 8 13:52:35 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: indicator-session
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Correction: The dialogs are created modally, but they are apparently modal without a parent. So can still get lost behind other windows.

Anyway, the fix was trivial. See Related branches...

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Fix was released as part of indicator-session 0.3.0.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Fix was released in indicator-session (0.3.0-0ubuntu1) oneiric. Just missing from the changelog.