Programs not accepting input?
Greg 'groggy' Lehey
grog at FreeBSD.org
Mon Mar 27 00:53:44 UTC 2006
On Sunday, 26 March 2006 at 19:17:19 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-Mar-26 17:50:09 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> In the last month or two I've seen increasing occurrences of programs
>> refusing keyboard input after they've been running for a while
>> (between hours and days). They still respond to the mouse. At first
>> I thought it was hardware, but it happens on a number of different
>> machines, and only with certain programs, all of them X clients.
>> Here's an overview (system names are simply to show that they're
>> different machines).
>
> Is the problem that the clients aren't taking focus or have focus
> but aren't accepting keyboard input?
The latter. It's not a question of focus.
> My work system runs separate X servers on two heads (rather than
> ximerama) and I have problems with windows occasionally refusing to
> accept focus after I move the pointer from screen to screen (though
> I can get an alternative window to accept focus and then switch back
> to the window I originally wanted). This started after an X.org
> upgrade but I'm not sure which one.
Interesting. I've seen this one too: my mail window is at the left of
the right-hand monitor on wantadilla (:0.1). Frequently when I move
from :0.0 to 0:1, the window manager will highlight the window on
:0.1, but focus remains with some window on :0.0. If I move further
right and then back again, focus catches up with the correct window.
That's mainly irritating; the problem I describe above is annoying.
>> The fact that new firefox windows accept input suggests that it's
>> somewhere in X.
>
> What X server?
echunga:
vendor string: The X.Org Foundation
vendor release number: 60801000
X.Org version: 6.8.1
wantadilla:
vendor string: The X.Org Foundation
vendor release number: 60802000
X.Org version: 6.8.2
I don't think that the difference in version numbers is the issue.
Greg
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