davidedmundson added a comment.
> Arguably it won't help us with all cases because the clients would have to
voluntarily participate in the protocol.
Yes. I'm not pretending it will.
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> I wonder whether it's worth fixing this bug on X11 at all.
There is a way to forcefully take a grab inside X internals.
The only way this is exposed publicly is via the shortcut key XF86Ungrab
setxkbmap -option grab:break_actions
xdotool key XF86Ungrab
It was meant as a dev tool so you could switch to a console to debug locks.
Using this is a horrific idea as it introduces a keyboard shortcut to
circumvent the screen locker!!
There's no other public API, though I don't see why one couldn't be added.
The bigger problem is that the client side has no indication that it loses
it's lock which leaves it in a corrupt state when you log in.
Adding that retroactively is the part I think is pragmatically impossible.
REPOSITORY
R133 KScreenLocker
REVISION DETAIL
https://phabricator.kde.org/D20804
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