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Bug 791061 - Modal dialogs may get "stuck" indefinitely
Modal dialogs may get "stuck" indefinitely
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: window-management
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-12-01 08:36 UTC by Jonas Ådahl
Modified: 2021-07-05 14:30 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
unset-transient-for.c (1.73 KB, text/x-csrc)
2017-12-01 08:36 UTC, Jonas Ådahl 		Details

Description Jonas Ådahl 2017-12-01 08:36:16 UTC 
Created attachment 364720 [details]
unset-transient-for.c

If the transient-for state of a modal dialog is unset before the dialog is destroyed, the actor of the dialog will never disappear, and the parent will stay dimmed indefinitely.

The cause seems to be that in _destroyWindow, the window.get_transient_for() returns null in the window.is_attached_dialog() true branch, causing the clean up path to malfunction.

See attachment for a simple reproducer. Reproduces on both Wayland and X11.
Comment 1 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-07-05 14:30:44 UTC 
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