(Backport to Gnome 44) Fail gracefully instead of crashing if grab fails with the error "Could not grab modal"#1032
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I have been using PaperWM on a daily basis for the past few months and it is great. One of the problems that I kept running into repeatedly was paperwm#991. This issue was reported on Gnome 47. I ran into this problem on Gnome 44. I attempted a naive fix which simply tries to clean-up all the state instead of crashing. This works well; I have been using a version of this fix, applied on top of the gnome-44 branch, for the past month and I have not suffered any `Could not grab modal` crashes. It would be great if I could get some guidance about whether this fix looks logical, and whether there might be a way to reproduce this code path somehow. We need to somehow get into `preview_navigate` (which happens when one uses a keyboard shortcut to switch windows, I believe?) but get there in a state where the keyboard is already grabbed by something else, thus causing PaperWM to fail to grab the keyboard. I would really like to fix this issue within PaperWM because I have not run into any other bug at all and this is a great project! Signed-off-by: Siddharth Kannan <mail@siddharthkannan.in>
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Thanks @icyflame! I don't use (or have access to) Gnome 44, but I'm happy to merge this one in given you've been running this for the last few weeks. |
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This PR has now been merged into Gnome 44 branch, and released on extensions.gnome.org as well. https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM/releases/tag/v44.18.1 Thanks. |
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Thanks a lot for merging this backport.
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Related to #991. This is backport of the PR to the PaperWM extension version targeting Gnome 44. The PR to the
developbranch is #1031. Please see that PR for more details.