Xorg 1.11 and later restored the feature upstream, though it's not enabled by default due to the security issues of being able to bypass screen locks with it. http://who-t.blogspot.com/2012/01/xkb-breaking-grabs-cve-2012-0064.html has more info, as do the more recent comments in the upstream bug report at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21652 .
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338489 Title: AllowDeactivateGrabs is broken Status in “xorg-server” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I upgraded to Jaunty, and the AllowDeactivateGrabs option suddenly does not work. This option also seems to be missing from the xorg.conf (5) man page. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.5.99.902-0ubuntu7 [modified: usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so] ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-8-generic (buildd@rothera) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-3ubuntu5) ) #26-Ubuntu SMP Wed Feb 25 04:28:54 UTC 2009 SourcePackage: xorg-server Uname: Linux 2.6.28-8-generic i686 Xrandr: To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/338489/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
