There are things that do not work on Wayland yet

Posted Feb 7, 2025 16:22 UTC (Fri) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
In reply to: There are things that do not work on Wayland yet by Wol
Parent article: What’s new in GTK, winter 2025 edition

Positioning a window and stealing focus are two different things. I'd be fine (for example) with programatically-positioned windows automatically being put at the bottom of the stack so they can't move themselves over another window maliciously.

There are things that do not work on Wayland yet

Posted Feb 7, 2025 17:22 UTC (Fri) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

Doesn't X11 already have something for this?

E.g., when I have to enter a PGP key on my desktop a GUI window pops up. It takes focus and NOTHING else can get focus from it. Anything I type can only go to that window and nothing else.

I assume the window is from seahorse, and I assume this is thanks to the X11 Security extension. I can't easily check the process as I can't mouse over to a terminal, cause of the focus lock. Not even the X server "change to console" key combo works at this point. The X11 Security extension allows applications to be "untrusted", but I don't know exactly how this is setup to make it so this password window is trusted and everything else is not. ??