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xplice

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Registered: 2015-10-11

Posts: 3

[SOLVED] ambiguous xorg popup

Dear community,

I'm using Arch as my main OS. I'm using gnome.

Something weird happened earlier today. I have a popup on my desktop that is quite strange:

https://imagebin.ca/v/3WGmWuprcQ8Y

I set up a basic iptables when I installed the system. I am behind a decent hardware firewall. I am using a few custom bits of software from the AUR and very few directly downloaded binaries.

I can't alt tab to the popup or close it but I can select the drop down so it is active. I'm running a full system scan now with clamav.

I've looked through top and can't see anything jumping out at me. I'm not sure how to determine what program is producing the popup - perhaps someone can suggest a way to trace it?

Thanks!

Last edited by xplice (2017-08-09 13:34:27)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,435

Re: [SOLVED] ambiguous xorg popup

Looks like discord was my first thought, my second thought was to run a google image search which confirmed that. So yeah, likely not a malware, wait for https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/discord to be updated.

If that turns out to be true, please change your title to reflect this information. And maybe [SOLVED] if this answer is satisfactory.

Mod note: Not a Networking issue, moving to NC

Last edited by V1del (2017-08-09 09:36:27)

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: [SOLVED] ambiguous xorg popup

Use xprop.

E.g.:

$ xprop
(click on desired window)
...
_NET_WM_PID(CARDINAL) = 16152
WM_CLASS(STRING) = "Navigator", "Firefox"

$ cat /proc/16152/cmdline 
firefox

xplice

Member

Registered: 2015-10-11

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] ambiguous xorg popup

You guys are awesome! Xprop is very nice. It was discord. So glad it's a false alarm.

Thanks again to you both for quick response!

Oh and clamav came back all clean across the whole system..

Last edited by xplice (2017-08-09 12:22:19)

graysky

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Registered: 2008-12-01

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Re: [SOLVED] ambiguous xorg popup

+1 for xprop...learn something new every day.

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