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"Very large window" alert triggered every time LibreOffice is opened for the first time in a qube #7533

Open andrewdavidwong opened 2 years ago

andrewdavidwong commented 2 years ago

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Qubes OS release

4.0.4

Debian-based qubes

Brief summary

The "very large window" warning alert (full text below) appears every time I open a LibreOffice spreadsheet the first time in a qube, which rapidly causes alarm fatigue. Qubes has trained me to immediately click away this notification without reading it every time it appears because (a) it is always a false positive, and (b) it is extremely verbose and therefore time-consuming (or time-wasting) to read.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Start a qube.
  2. Open a LibreOffice spreadsheet (normal maximized window).

Expected behavior

No intrusive or distracting notification that requires user action to dismiss it.

Actual behavior

This alert always appears and persists until I click on it:

This VM has attempted to create a very large window in a manner that would have prevented you from closing it and regaining the control of Qubes OS's graphical user interface.

As a protection measure, the "override_redirect" flag of the window in question has been unset. If this creates unexpected issues in the handling of this VM's windows, please set "override_redirect_protection" to "false" for this VM in /etc/qubes/guid.conf to disable this protection measure and restart the VM.

This message will only appear once per VM per session. Please click on this notification to close it.

DemiMarie commented 2 years ago

Is this still an issue in 4.1 @andrewdavidwong?

andrewdavidwong commented 2 years ago

Is this still an issue in 4.1 @andrewdavidwong?

Yes, definitely.