Hola John Kirk! > There is also another way to reproduce it: > > 1) Open terminal > 2) gpg -c somefile.txt > 3) When you will see the window for a password try to open an application > through cinnamon menu, > change workspace through the applet or the right button menu on the desktop.
Alright this explains the problem clearly, and this is not a bug in cinnamon. This is a "feature" of how X (the graphical environment) works. When something raises a modal window (like the one gpg -c raises in the above example) that window has total control of the desktop. You can't switch to a different workspace with Cinnamon (or basically do any other window-manager related operations), because there's this modal window that is in control of everything that is window manager related. This same "feature" causes problems when -for example- a user may rely on a screensaver activating automatically after some idle time. If there's a modal window being shown, this window has total control of the desktop and the screensaver can't activate. These are issues that have been present in X for years and years. It is our hope that things will be better when Wayland finally happens (maybe Buster?) -- Regards, Marga
