I'm getting occasional pop-up dialogues (KDE/Wayland) but am not sure where exactly they're coming from. They happen when running Steam games and ask for authorisation to enable input, but the meaning is unclear and I want to check if they come from Steam itself or from something in the system, or kwin, plasmashell or what.
poc
Ooh, do you get this box?
I get these all the time from VMWare Horizon Client (err, Omnissa).
I'll be running fine for a while, then it will appear (I _think_ it happens after I press the Ctrl key, but not the first time, just that Ctrl is the trigger). I can hit Cancel however many times I want it it reappears continuously.
On 3/13/25 2:07 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan via kde wrote:
I'm getting occasional pop-up dialogues (KDE/Wayland) but am not sure where exactly they're coming from. They happen when running Steam games and ask for authorisation to enable input, but the meaning is unclear and I want to check if they come from Steam itself or from something in the system, or kwin, plasmashell or what.
poc
On Thu, 2025-03-13 at 14:14 -0400, Adam Batkin via kde wrote:
Ooh, do you get this box?
That's the one.
I get these all the time from VMWare Horizon Client (err, Omnissa).
I'll be running fine for a while, then it will appear (I _think_ it happens after I press the Ctrl key, but not the first time, just that Ctrl is the trigger). I can hit Cancel however many times I want it it reappears continuously.
Not using VMware (nor any VM) when this happens. If I click Cancel it goes away. If I click OK it also goes away. It's not entirely clear what the actual effect is. I'd need to do more testing, but that's one reason I'd like to know what's producing it.
poc
On 14/3/25 07:40, Patrick O'Callaghan via kde wrote:
On Thu, 2025-03-13 at 14:14 -0400, Adam Batkin via kde wrote:
Ooh, do you get this box?
That's the one.
I get these all the time from VMWare Horizon Client (err, Omnissa).
I'll be running fine for a while, then it will appear (I _think_ it happens after I press the Ctrl key, but not the first time, just that Ctrl is the trigger). I can hit Cancel however many times I want it it reappears continuously.
Not using VMware (nor any VM) when this happens. If I click Cancel it goes away. If I click OK it also goes away. It's not entirely clear what the actual effect is. I'd need to do more testing, but that's one reason I'd like to know what's producing it.
poc
Hi Patrick, I'm playing King Arthur under steam in both Fedora and Windows 11 and playing the same instance of the game in both as I use the same account in steam (when I access the game I continue from where I left off irrespective of whether the game was played in Windows or Linux) and I use KDE in Fedora, using both the mouse/keyboard or an Xbox controller (for some reason the xbox button usage is different under Windows and Linux but I'm not sure why). So far I have never had any input control popup from the game, steam or linux. The screenshot supplied looks like a similar system to what we use at work that pops up on our laptops when the support guys we raise issues with are requesting to be given control of the laptop so that they can do things without having to give us instructions on what they want, although the screenshot is more detailed than what we get, which happens after they have remote connected to our machines via a token exchange.
regards, Steve
On Fri, 2025-03-14 at 08:45 +1100, Stephen Morris via kde wrote:
The screenshot supplied looks like a similar system to what we use at work that pops up on our laptops when the support guys we raise issues with are requesting to be given control of the laptop so that they can do things without having to give us instructions on what they want, although the screenshot is more detailed than what we get, which happens after they have remote connected to our machines via a token exchange.
That's a clue. I sometimes use Sunshine on Linux to enable remote play using the Moonlight app on an Xbox or other machine (it works really well). I suspect it's the Sunshine server (which is always running) that's giving the pop-up, even when I'm using Steam locally.
poc
On 3/13/25 4:40 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan via kde wrote:
On Thu, 2025-03-13 at 14:14 -0400, Adam Batkin via kde wrote:
Ooh, do you get this box?
That's the one.
I get these all the time from VMWare Horizon Client (err, Omnissa).
I'll be running fine for a while, then it will appear (I _think_ it happens after I press the Ctrl key, but not the first time, just that Ctrl is the trigger). I can hit Cancel however many times I want it it reappears continuously.
Not using VMware (nor any VM) when this happens. If I click Cancel it goes away. If I click OK it also goes away. It's not entirely clear what the actual effect is. I'd need to do more testing, but that's one reason I'd like to know what's producing it.
No VMs involved, Horizon Client is an application to connect to remote systems. My theory is that there's something going on with misbehaving X applications.
Other misbehavior I have seen with individual X applications (and where something like xev would be similarly useful):
- Sometimes pasting stops working in the application - Sometimes numeric keypad doesn't work (regular numbers work) - Sometimes Ctrl key stops registering (noticeable in JetBrains IDEs)
In each of the above instances, everything is fine up to some point, and once _something_ happens, that bit of functionality becomes broken until I log out and back in again (but only in the affected application(s) which are all X applications). JetBrains IDEs are the only affected applications where I can switch to Wayland mode, and once I do that, all the problems disappear.
Sorry to hijack this thread.
-Adam Batkin
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