eavesdropping alert on gnome-menu click

[wofro]

I have noticed that if I start a program using gksu or run a program that needs
root privaliges and I then open the menu whilst it is starting up I get a
warning saying: "Cannot grab mouse, someone may be eavesdropping on your
session". I am sure that unless the laws of physics have changed no one can
watch a session of any variety if I am not connected to the internet.

I am running
Ubuntu 5.10
Linux version 2.6.12-10-686 (buildd@terranova) (gcc version 3.4.5 20050809
(prerelease) (Ubuntu 3.4.4-6ubuntu8)) #1 Fri Nov 18 12:09:04 UTC 2005

My system is also completely up to date.

[wofro (zeethreedee)]

Created an attachment (id=5044)
Screen shot of bug in action.

This is a screen shot of the bug in action on my computer. I have been able to
replicate the bug many times so I do think it is a one off thing.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

This is "normal" behaviour because the menus are implemented in that way in gtk.
I don't think there is a lot that can be done here (except for removing/changing
the message in gksu).

> I am sure that unless the laws of physics have changed no one can
> watch a session of any variety if I am not connected to the internet.

Hypothetically the session might be eavesdropped by a program runing in the
background that sends the information out to the net once a network connection
is available. The message is not totally useless, but give certainly wrong false
positives.

[Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount)]

The situation is still the same more than 2 years later. The message definitely should be changed, although I wouldn't know how to explain the situation better. Also can't this be fixed in gtk if that is where the problem originates?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue is not a gtk one, gtk needs to grab event to get the menus working correctly and is not doing anything wrong, the dialog is a gksu one and that's what should be changed there