Security risk - Screen saver fails to start (was Re: [chandler-users] Reliably freeze the mouse on Linux)

[Grant Baillie]

On 7 Aug, 2008, at 13:14, William K. Volkman wrote:

> And now it has become a security issue, the screen saver attempted to
> lock the screen on my workstation however it couldn't because a grab  
> was
> in place.  You really have to go through the application and find  
> where
> system modal grabs are being done and downgrade them to application
> modal.  There really is no reason for a system modal grab.

Hi, William

I've been pondering this modal stuff a bit, and have been a little  
confused because there are no "system modal" dialogs in Chandler. I  
think Jeffrey earlier said something similar in an earlier thread:  
there's no real way in our graphics/windowing library (wx) to create  
such a thing.

However, I had a hunch as to what's going on, and found the following  
bug logged against wx:

http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/8657

 From what I can see, we don't have the patch in that bug. If I roll  
that change into a test build at some point, would you be interested  
in trying it out?

--Grant