Hi Tim; On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 16:00 +0000, Tim Waugh wrote: > > I think you mean the PolicyKit dialog, which says things like > "Privileges are required to get devices." and "An application is > attempting to perform an action that requires privileges." > Yes, that is the widow. I experimented with various attempts at printing re-configuration. The Window I am referring to is titled "Authentication". > In that case, do you mean that the window is not brought to the front, > and instead is hidden behind other windows? > I believe this is a PolicyKit problem: there is no way for the client > (system-config-printer in this case) to indicate to the dialog which window has "caused" the > authentication dialog, and I think causes the window manager to prevent > it from "focus stealing". It is brought to the front, but remains unfocused. I also experimented with other administration gui's. Some do use the "Authentication" window which remains unfocused. Others, like List Hardware (lshw), Network Device Control and Display for example, use a query window at the start that says: "Query You are attempting to run "lshw-gui" which requires administrative privileges, but more information is needed in order to do so. Authentication as "root" Password: " This Query window always starts focused. Don't take me amiss. My comments where only meant as a minor nit-pick not as a major complaint. With that said, most users are like me -- so used to automatically and rapidly typing in "root's" password that it is a bit of an annoyance to have to stop and read which Authentication window your dealing with and/or having to type the password twice. If it is a PolicyKit problem, maybe we can both gang up on the PolicyKit people to change their password window to be focused? -- Regards Bill Fedora 12, Gnome 2.28 Evo.2.28, Emacs 23.1.1 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
