Florence sometimes hides other windows, which breaks tests

Originally created by @bertagaz on #11398 (Redmine)

Two scenarios are failing from time to time because the Florence keyboard is on top of the window where the test suite expects to see results:

cucumber features/root_access_control.feature:25 # Scenario: If no administrative password is set in Tails Greeter the live user \
  should not be able to get administrative privileges through PolicyKit with the standard passwords.
cucumber features/evince.feature:24 # Scenario: I cannot view a PDF file stored in non-persistent /home/amnesia/.gnupg

In this case, another scenario is also failing:

cucumber features/encryption.feature:32 # Scenario: Symmetric encryption and decryption using OpenPGP Applet

This scenarios are using snapshots, so it might be that this one is taken a bit too soon, and the Florence keyboard hasn’t really finished to initialize and is still opened on the desktop.

It happened recently in Jenkins runs test_Tails_ISO_feature-11123-new-mirror-pool #2, test_Tails_ISO_stable #196 and test_Tails_ISO_stable #243

See attached screenshots.

Feature Branch: test/11398-florence-hides-other-windows

Attachments

• 00_42_15_I_cannot_view_a_PDF_file_stored_in_non-persistent__home_amnesia_.gnupg.png
• 00_31_57_If_no_administrative_password_is_set_in_Tails_Greeter_the_live_user_should_not_be_able_to_get_administrative_privileges_through_PolicyKit_with_the_standard_passwords..png
• 00_41_43_Symmetric_encryption_and_decryption_using_OpenPGP_Applet.png

Parent Task: #10288 (closed)

Related issues

• Related to #11464 (closed)
• Blocks #10497 (closed)