Bug 31377

Summary:	systemsettings got into weird cycling
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Pierre Fortin <pfortin>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	lewyssmith, marja11
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	short video of issue another short video what I was tring to describe in email to discuss list..

Description Pierre Fortin 2023-01-06 19:51:59 CET

Description of problem: I was writing an email to the Mageia discuss mailing list to see if anyone else was seeing black windows, dialogs, tooltips; and wanted to include my system info. So I opened systemsettings from the taskbar and its window started cycling through images of whatever was on the screen.  Moving other windows over the systemsettings screen caused those contents to become part of the "carnival" show...  See attached short video captures.

Whichever screen the systemsetttings window was on, the other windows could not be selected, raised, lowered, moved.  Once I figured out it was the systemsettings window, killing the process restored everything back to normal.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:  no idea. Once it starts, it takes over control of the mouse in that trying to select other windows, systemsettings window "owns" the mouse.  Accessing other windows via the taskbar was my way around this...  


Steps to Reproduce:
1. All I did was click the systemsettings icon in the taskbar while an error message from mcc update was display solid black content (what I was writing an email about).  
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Comment 1 Pierre Fortin 2023-01-06 19:53:39 CET

Created attachment 13623 [details]
short video of issue

Comment 2 Pierre Fortin 2023-01-06 19:56:03 CET

Created attachment 13624 [details]
another short video

In this case, this shows how I dragged a window from the right screen across the systemsettings window on the left screen.  Only windows on the left screen were not able to be selected since systemsettings was grabbing the mouse when it was on left screen.

Comment 3 Pierre Fortin 2023-01-06 20:03:29 CET

Created attachment 13625 [details]
what I was tring to describe in email to discuss list..

Since screengrab is still not fixed (bug 31322), I had to use /usr/bin/obs to capture the black screen I was writing about...   This may have triggered this systemsettings bug; so I will try to reproduce it momentarily...

Comment 4 Pierre Fortin 2023-01-06 20:06:45 CET

With the mcc dialog still solid black, I can't reproduce this weird bug at this time...

Comment 5 Pierre Fortin 2023-01-06 20:08:08 CET

This is what I was trying to access when the bug struck:
Operating System: Mageia 9
KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.101.0
Qt Version: 5.15.7
Kernel Version: 6.1.1-server-2.mga9 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 20 × 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700K
Memory: 125.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: XPS 8950

Comment 6 Lewis Smith 2023-01-06 21:28:48 CET

OK, this looks a one-off event - unless you are able to reproduce it.

If I deduce correctly the sequence of events:
You were doing: MCC-Update system;
This yielded a message which was solid black (so it could be any message);
You then started an e-mail to the Mageia discuss mailing list about this;
And started Plasma Systemsettings-About this system to get this info to post.
Then it all went wrong.

Your little videos were neatly done. Who else would have thought of using obs?!

Until this happens again, let's leave it on hold.

CC: (none) => lewyssmith

Comment 7 Pierre Fortin 2023-01-06 21:46:20 CET

Exact summary. Holding.

Marja Van Waes 2023-02-04 23:22:38 CET

CC: (none) => marja11
Status: NEW => UNCONFIRMED
Ever confirmed: 1 => 0

Comment 8 Pierre Fortin 2023-04-28 22:04:42 CEST

Not seen since.

Resolution: (none) => WORKSFORME
Status: UNCONFIRMED => RESOLVED