Debian Template: passive popups sometimes not closeable

[adrelanos]

Start a debian-8 based AppVM. Test command (requires having the libnotify-bin package installed):

notify-send test

This is also security issue. Something wrong within the VM can spam dom0 with loads of uncloseable windows.

More discussion and ideas what could be causing this:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/qubes-users/PtnwWxqQdHA/UwiNkLe5YJUJ

[marmarek]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 01:10:16PM -0700, Patrick Schleizer wrote:

Start a debian-8 based AppVM. Test command (requires having the libnotify-bin package installed):

notify-send test

This is also security issue. Something wrong within the VM can spam dom0 with loads of uncloseable windows.

More discussion and ideas what could be causing this:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/qubes-users/PtnwWxqQdHA/UwiNkLe5YJUJ

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Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:
#1076

Regarding security aspect - this isn't related to notify-send (or
notify-osd package in this case), but more generally to windows with
override-redirect flag set. Those windows are not managed by dom0 WM, so
can't be moved, forcibly closed etc. Similar issue is described in
#1044.
We need some generic solution for that (like keyboard shortcut to close
misbehaving window/VM).

Regarding popups problem, I'll respond on mailing list.

Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

[marmarek]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 01:10:16PM -0700, Patrick Schleizer wrote:

Start a debian-8 based AppVM. Test command (requires having the libnotify-bin package installed):

notify-send test

This is also security issue. Something wrong within the VM can spam dom0 with loads of uncloseable windows.

More discussion and ideas what could be causing this:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/qubes-users/PtnwWxqQdHA/UwiNkLe5YJUJ

---

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:
#1076

Regarding security aspect - this isn't related to notify-send (or
notify-osd package in this case), but more generally to windows with
override-redirect flag set. Those windows are not managed by dom0 WM, so
can't be moved, forcibly closed etc. Similar issue is described in
#1044.
We need some generic solution for that (like keyboard shortcut to close
misbehaving window/VM).

Regarding popups problem, I'll respond on mailing list.

Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

[marmarek]

Notification daemon in Debian changed to mate-notification-daemon.

[marmarek]

Notification daemon in Debian changed to mate-notification-daemon.