After updating to KDE 4.9.1 I've started getting "stuck" windows. Today I got to my computer, entered the password to unlock it and it unlocked fine but the window asking for the password was kept on screen. Background image showed fine, applications worked fine, except the unlock window was in front of them all. Cursor was responding to window underneath, not to the stuck window. Tried "xkill" on the stuck window but the window underneath was killed. Only way I got it to disappear was restarting X with Ctrl-Alt-Bcksp Later it happened again, this time with a window asking for the root password (i was changing some clock settings). "xkill" doesn't work on it and it's only displaying on it's original desktop (and not on all six virtual desktops). This window isn't always on top and as such doesn't really bother me so I haven't restarted X so as to able to extract information from the system. Another curious thing is that this second window actually goes down the window stack like a normal window. It started on top, then when i changed to a second window it went behind that window, not to the bottom. It appears to work like a window that is "transparent" to input events. Marked it with Major severity because if the window is an always-on-top it makes using the desktop very very hard. Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce Steps to Reproduce: No idea....
Created attachment 74185 [details] Desktop is clearly behind the window As shown by the desktop selection, the window is clearly above the desktop
Created attachment 74186 [details] Right click on "dead" window Right clicking on the "dead" window shows the right click action for the window beneath it (in this case, the desktop)
Created attachment 74191 [details] Screensaver window stuck Today I unlocked the computer, and the password unlock window got "stuck" again. It's always on top, and present in every single virtual desktop.
Disabling desktop effects with Ctrl-Shift-F12 (toggle desktop effects) made the windows go away.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 306186 ***