pointer grabbing issue and 2 possible solutions

[Francesco Fumanti <francesco fumanti gmx net>]

Hello,

As you might know, it is not possible to enter the password into the 
policykit authentication dialog with an onscreen keyboard, because the 
dialog grabs the pointer and the clicks do not get to the onscreen 
keyboard as long as the grab lasts.

So I asked on the xorg mailing list whether it could make sense to 
deprecate the pointer grabs. [1] From the replies I got, it seems not to 
be possible.

However, two ideas have been proposed that could solve the problem:
1. Adding priorities to the grabbing system or
2. It should be not to difficult to solve with a Multi-Pointer X Server.
Both ideas can be found for example in the post referenced by [2].

Any comments are welcomed.

Cheers

Francesco


[1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-April/034945.html
[2] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-April/035046.html