Hi Everyone,
I have been experiencing an issue with the popup notification from Chrome and Gmail. I can’t click on it to have it be dismissed. Most time I have to switch back to the workspace in which it appeared 1st, but now it even happens when in the workspace containing the chrome browser window.
Any idea how to approach this? I just kill the qube that spawned chrome when I really get frustrated with it…
You need to focus the window of the chrome browser’s qube to be able to interact with this notification.
Not sure exactly what you mean. Could it mean click on any window that originated from that qube that is running chrome? If that’s the case, I’ve tried that before. Let me know what you were intending for me to try, thanks!
Yes, that’s what I meant.
Maybe you need to focus the specific window that generated this popup.
But I’m not sure about it, I’ve never encountered this before.
Is there an easy way to reproduce it?
I don’t think this is a chrome specific issue. I have a similar problem that I have been just living with for some time, with Thunderbird.
I have several of my AppVMs configured to automatically start several saved session apps that I always use, and one of them is Thunderbird. During the startup sequence Thunderbird apparently fails to authenticate one of the accounts, likely because the network isn’t established yet. A pop up appears as the very first gui element on the screen, followed by Firefox, and then eventually the Thunderbird main window, which is much slower to display.
If I am quick to click on that first pop-up the message, it will just go away, but if the Thunderbird main window appears before I click on it, then it will not respond. I have to physically move the Thunderbird main window out from under that pop-up for me to be able to click on it to make it go away. Its like the pop-up is being displayed as always-on-top but logically it thinks that the pop up control is behind the other main window because of the order window of creation.
I have seen this behavior many times before with other apps but I never bothered to record which ones and the sequence of events. The Thunderbird issue I see daily. With other apps sometimes clicking on the desktop background where there are no windows displayed changes the focus to somehow fix the problem, but not always. Something is getting the logical level of the pop-up control out of sync with the physical ordering of the window display stack. Not sure this is the correct terminology but it describes what I am seeing.
Easy enough to reproduce. I’ll just wait for the popup notifications today, during the course of my work. I’ll be trying several things to identify what works, outside of killing the Qube to make it go away. Update to follow…
Thanks for sharing your experience with the issue @slcoleman and I’ll test your work around as well. More to follow…