update-manager steals focus to possible important reqeusts

Bug #1528621 reported by dronus
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
update-manager (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

Using Ubuntu 14.04 with Metacity (gnome-classic session), if update-manager is performing package updates in the background (as usual), and is actually configuring packages, upcoming requests steal keyboard focus and are answered randomly.

I am writing a lot on my machine, so any request suddenly stealing focus and accept keys will most likely disapper very fast answered in a totally uncontrolled fashion.

This may be quite dangerous, as system updates are made with root privileges and the questions may be quite important I guess.

Tags: trusty
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dronus (paul-geisler) wrote :

Can anyone actually tell me, what questions update-manager most likely ask while configuring packages?

tags: added: trusty
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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