Error when launching xcolor from the Activities overview: Could not grab pointer

Soft / xcolor

Lightweight color picker for X11

https://soft.github.io/xcolor/

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Error when launching xcolor from the Activities overview: Could not grab pointer #38

Open guihkx opened 2 years ago

guihkx commented 2 years ago

When trying to launch xcolor from the GNOME's Activities overview, nothing happens. Upon inspecting the system journal, however, you can see this message:

$ journalctl -b
< ... >
May 07 18:25:38 arch xcolor.desktop[164542]: error: Could not grab pointer

System information:

OS: Arch Linux
xcolor: 0.5.1
Desktop: GNOME 42.1

aerosol commented 1 year ago

I have the same stderr output trying to launch xcolor from polybar's click-left hook.

SkwalExe commented 1 month ago

I fixed the problem in my i3wm config by adding --release to the key binding:

bindsym --release $mod+x exec --no-startup-id xcolor...

I think this is because the pointer grab conflicts with the keyboard, so adding a short delay before starting the program also fixes the issue for me: sleep 0.2; xcolor ...

I also had this problem with polybar and adding the timeout fixed it.