Bug 162752

Summary:	X freezes in special circonstance
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	patrick serru <patrick>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	finex, zahl
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	triaged
Version:	1.9.52
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description patrick serru 2008-05-28 16:55:03 UTC

Version:           1.9.6 (enterprise 20070904.708012) (using 3.5.7 "release 72.6" , openSUSE 10.3)
Compiler:          Target: x86_64-suse-linux
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.22.17-0.1-default

Circonstances:
1- A received e-mail requiring acknoledgment
2- A setting of KMail for 60 secondes displaying an e-mail before considering that e-mail as "read"

This e-mail was displayed and after reading it (that is, after it having been displayed ~59 seconds, I decide to respond. To do it, click right (contextuel click) on this mail line. The contextuel menu being poped-up, the dialog concerning the acknoledge requirement appeared... I did not find an other way to get out of this blocked situation otherwise than killing the X server.

KMail is a very nice software. Thanks to the developpers team.

Comment 1 FiNeX 2009-04-04 18:27:53 UTC

I've tried to reproduce this on KDE 4 but I've not been able to do it. Can you try with a more recent KDE version (like 4.2.2)

Many thanks Patrick! :-)

Comment 2 A. Spehr 2009-04-28 21:39:17 UTC

In your /etc/X11/xorg.conf (that's where it is on debian, at least), add:

Section "Serverflags"
        Option      "AllowDeactivateGrabs"  "on"
        # ^^^ use control + alt + keypad's divide
        Option      "AllowClosedownGrabs"   "on" 
        # ^^^ use control + alt + keypad's multiply
EndSection   

If this is from a grab, which it sounds like it could be, you use the keystrokes given in the comments, and you can recover without restarting X. Does that help?

Otherwise, if you can at least upgrade to 3.5.10, you might find it fixed. KDE isn't really fixing bugs in 3.x at this point, but you might find support from it with downstream vendors.

Comment 3 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-09-04 18:18:10 UTC

Hello! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this version of Kmail has been unmaintained for many years so I am closing this bug. Please try using the latest version of Kmail to see if your issue persists. If it does, please submit a new bug in "kmail2". Thank you!