*dang*!!! can't get rid of an on-screen dialog (Xfree problem??)

[Mike A. Harris]

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, Elton Woo wrote:

>The best way I can describe the problem is via the attached screen capture.
>I've tried to make the file as small as possible, so as not to overload 
>anyone's mailbox. (attachment: dialog-freeze.png 48.8 k).
>
>This is a repeatable error. When I get a link in kmail, or konqueror
>(running under Gnome), and I *abort* a download  ... as shown, the dialog
>hangs, and remains _in the foreground_. Any other windows (current, or
>newly started ones) are kept in the background ... even if I switch to another
>workspace. The only way I can get rid of the dialog window is to exit
>the desktop.
>
>Anyone else notice this? Could this be another conflict between Xfree and
>the nVidia drivers?

Very unlikely to be video driver or X server related.  kill -9 
the application that owns the dialog box, and I'm sure the dialog 
will go away.



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OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat