Comment 10 for bug 513482
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(In reply to comment #2)
> I couldn't get bug 25400 to run, but superficially it sounds different because
> that bug states "Clicking anywhere else on the button traps the mouse cursor
> within the bounds of the button, with no means of escape other than switching
> to a console and killing the application.", whereas with this bug (27232), when
> X windows hangs you can freely move the mouse pointer over the whole screen,
> it's just that no windows or buttons respond to mouse clicks.
whether the pointer is trapped is just one parameter in the grab request (ConfineTo) and no-one but motif still uses it. So it could still be the same bug.
> By the way:
> 1. The computer is still running fine despite not being able to mouse-click on
> anything, for example my CPU graph animation continues running in the
> background.
> 2. You can escape from this hang with alt+f7 (in Ubuntu, gnome anyway).
I couldn't reproduce it with the test program though (that's on 1.8 with the patches from 25400 applied). Do you have the chance of trying the patches?