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gtk+2.0 package

Don't let offscreen widgets do grab adds

Bug #512427 reported by Cody Russell
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Sebastien Bacher

Bug Description

Widgets inside GtkOffscreenWindow seem like they should not be allowed to do grab the mouse or whatever, as this can deactivate open menus and stuff.

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Cody Russell (bratsche) wrote :

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607668

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your work there

Changed in gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
importance: Undecided → Low
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gtk+2.0 - 2.19.3-1ubuntu4

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gtk+2.0 (2.19.3-1ubuntu4) lucid; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/071_no_offscreen_widgets_grabbing.patch:
    - change by Cody Russell to not let offscreen widgets do grabbing
      (Lp: #512427)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:13:51 +0100

Changed in gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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Alistair Buxton (a-j-buxton) wrote :

This patch causes an annoying g_critical if you add a grab on a widget before it is realized. In this case toplevel->window will be null.

This also make me wonder what happens if you add a grab to an offscreen widget before realizing it.

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djb (djb0) wrote :

This patch has propagated to Debian too, where it causes this

every time a GtkComboBox with wrap-width not set is opened.

This seems bad. Can this patch be removed? I'm not sure it's applicable in 2016. It's weird also that a patch with such a weak synopsis was accepted:

"seem like they should not be allowed to do grab the mouse or whatever"

What was that supposed to mean?

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djb (djb0) wrote :

The bug this causes is

(GameConqueror.py:19834): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_get_window_type: assertion 'GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

as documented here

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771242

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