Bug 31377 - systemsettings got into weird cycling
Summary: systemsettings got into weird cycling
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mageia Bug Squad
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2023-01-06 19:51 CET by Pierre Fortin
Modified: 2023-04-28 22:04 CEST (History)
2 users (show)

See Also:
Source RPM:
CVE:
Status comment:


Attachments
short video of issue (817.37 KB, video/x-matroska)
2023-01-06 19:53 CET, Pierre Fortin
Details
another short video (643.97 KB, video/x-matroska)
2023-01-06 19:56 CET, Pierre Fortin
Details
what I was tring to describe in email to discuss list.. (301.82 KB, video/x-matroska)
2023-01-06 20:03 CET, Pierre Fortin
Details

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).  
2.
3.
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


Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.