1685394 - [wayland][sway/wayfire] Screen sharing indicator steals focus and blocks input

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1668358

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect, P3)

Description

[Sawyer Bergeron]

Attachment: 2021-01-06-152717_grim.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:86.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/86.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Start screen sharing with google meet (using xdg-desktop-portal-wlr and pipewire)
2. Allow sharing prompts
3. Open a new tab
4. Try to enter a URL

Actual results:

The URL bar and other text fields are impossible to enter text in, and I can not select any text field and have a cursor display

Expected results:

I should be able to enter text while screen sharing

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Comment 2

[robertgzr]

This also happens with the legacy global indicator (privacy.webrtc.legacyGlobalIndicator: true) and the microphone/camera indicators (privacy.webrtc.globalMuteToggles: true).

A side effect of it stealing focus is that on pages like google meet, when microphone and camera access are requested in sequence, rather than in a single popup, whichever permission request comes last the popup will be hidden when focus changes to the indicator.

Comment 3

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto [:gcp]]

I remember some similar bugs that could potentially make WebRTC problematic to use on Linux.

Comment 4

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto [:gcp]]

Though that one https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1654955#c7 turned out to already have been fixed.