Bug 379279

The dialog which opens need to have proper hints and timestamps to ensure that KWin grants focus.

I ran xwininfo on the popup and got:

xwininfo: Please select the window about which you
          would like information by clicking the
          mouse in that window.

xwininfo: Window id: 0x800019 "VPN secrets (openvpn) — KDE Daemon"

  Root window id: 0xd7 (the root window) (has no name)
  Parent window id: 0x26ad73f (has no name)
     0 children.

  Absolute upper-left X:  2523
  Absolute upper-left Y:  434
  Relative upper-left X:  0
  Relative upper-left Y:  0
  Width: 214
  Height: 102
  Depth: 24
  Visual: 0xb4
  Visual Class: TrueColor
  Border width: 0
  Class: InputOutput
  Colormap: 0x800018 (not installed)
  Bit Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
  Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
  Backing Store State: NotUseful
  Save Under State: no
  Map State: IsViewable
  Override Redirect State: no
  Corners:  +2523+434  -863+434  -863-544  +2523-544
  -geometry 214x102+2523+434

  Bit gravity: NorthWestGravity
  Window gravity: NorthWestGravity
  Backing-store hint: NotUseful
  Backing-planes to be preserved: 0xffffffff
  Backing pixel: 0
  Save-unders: No

  Someone wants these events:
      KeyPress
      KeyRelease
      ButtonPress
      ButtonRelease
      EnterWindow
      LeaveWindow
      PointerMotion
      ButtonMotion
      Exposure
      StructureNotify
      FocusChange
      PropertyChange
      ColormapChange
  Do not propagate these events:
  Override redirection?: No

  Window manager hints:
      Client accepts input or input focus: Yes
      Initial state is Normal State
      Displayed on desktop 0
      Window type:
          Dialog
          Normal
      Window state:
          Above
          Stays On Top
      Process id: 1877
      Frame extents: 4, 4, 29, 4

  Normal window size hints:
      User supplied location: 2523, 434
      User supplied size: 214 by 102
      Program supplied minimum size: 194 by 102
      Program supplied window gravity: StaticGravity
  No zoom window size hints defined

  No window shape defined
  No border shape defined

Running kdialog -password foo (which does pop up a window with the correct focus) gives xwininfo of

xwininfo: Please select the window about which you
          would like information by clicking the
          mouse in that window.

xwininfo: Window id: 0x5200012 "KDialog"

  Root window id: 0xd7 (the root window) (has no name)
  Parent window id: 0x26af28f (has no name)
     0 children.

  Absolute upper-left X:  2430
  Absolute upper-left Y:  439
  Relative upper-left X:  0
  Relative upper-left Y:  0
  Width: 420
  Height: 196
  Depth: 24
  Visual: 0x20
  Visual Class: TrueColor
  Border width: 0
  Class: InputOutput
  Colormap: 0x22 (installed)
  Bit Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
  Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
  Backing Store State: NotUseful
  Save Under State: no
  Map State: IsViewable
  Override Redirect State: no
  Corners:  +2430+439  -750+439  -750-445  +2430-445
  -geometry 420x196+2426+410

  Bit gravity: NorthWestGravity
  Window gravity: NorthWestGravity
  Backing-store hint: NotUseful
  Backing-planes to be preserved: 0xffffffff
  Backing pixel: 0
  Save-unders: No

  Someone wants these events:
      KeyPress
      KeyRelease
      ButtonPress
      ButtonRelease
      EnterWindow
      LeaveWindow
      PointerMotion
      ButtonMotion
      KeymapState
      Exposure
      StructureNotify
      FocusChange
      PropertyChange
      ColormapChange
  Do not propagate these events:
  Override redirection?: No

  Window manager hints:
      Client accepts input or input focus: Yes
      Initial state is Normal State
      Displayed on desktop 0
      Window type:
          Dialog
          Normal
      Window state:
          Modal
      Process id: 9831 on host atlantis
      Frame extents: 4, 4, 29, 4

  Normal window size hints:
      Program supplied minimum size: 420 by 196
      Program supplied window gravity: NorthWestGravity
  No zoom window size hints defined

  No window shape defined
  No border shape defined




The only difference appears to be in the window state?

Can you test this patch https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/130109/ and check if it works for you?

Am I right in thinking I would need to recompile https://github.com/KDE/plasma-nm/tree/v5.9.4 ?

Yes, recompiling that plasma-nm is enough to test the patch.

Ok after checking out that code and installing an awful lot of build dependencies :-) I first tried without the diff (to see if the Fedora build was doing something strange) but could still reproduce the problem. I have just now tried with the diff and it seems to be working! Thanks.

Could this patch be applied to the 5.9.x series? I can enter an issue into Fedora upstream.

I can backport that patch to Fedora, I just wasn't able to verify that it fixes this problem, let me test it again.

Git commit 2c6b059626dedd1ae82fb06f0d6f8737dae8e5b5 by Lamarque V. Souza.
Committed on 04/05/2017 at 12:36.
Pushed by lvsouza into branch 'master'.

Workaround to fix PasswordDialog's focus.

REVIEW: 130109
FIXED-IN: 5.9.6

M  +7    -1    kded/passworddialog.cpp

https://commits.kde.org/plasma-nm/2c6b059626dedd1ae82fb06f0d6f8737dae8e5b5

*** Bug 381148 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***