Applications can cause the screen to freeze
Submitted by swo..@..ol.com
Assigned to Xorg Project Team
Description
There are cases in which applications are able to freeze the screen (here is an example bug report: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39036 ). I have seen this also if the debug version of the Flash Player shows a backtrace while an entry in the menu bar of Firefox is opened but in this case anything freezes except the mouse cursor.
I think the xserver should not allow applications to be this mighty and always guarantee that the user have always control over the screen.
Version: 7.7 (2012.06)