Firebird 0.7 and the keyboard; c&p to FB from Evolution

[Mike Patterson]

Tijl Coosemans wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 14:41:58 -0700, David Thiel wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 05:29:02PM -0400, Mike Patterson wrote:
>>
>>>Interesting - I'd tried that already, but not with another window in
>>>the same workspace (I use WindowMaker).  Opening up an xterm in the
>>>same workspace as FB, then giving it focus and typing some stuff,
>>>then moving back to FB, worked ok; nothing else seems to.
>>>
>>>Oh well, thanks!  This is perhaps a WM problem, rather than
>>>something strictly FB.
>>
>>Nope, I've seen it in fluxbox and openbox as well, with both Mozilla
>>and Firebird.
> 
> 
> Yes and I have it with pekwm, usually after some workspace switching. I
> haven't noticed the problem yet with the gtk12 version I'm running now
> though, so perhaps it's gtk2 related?

That may explain the problems with c&p that I'm seeing from evo as well? 
  I don't know, I use very few gtk apps.  If I open up the same email in 
a web-based mail client, I can c&p no problem, just going from evo to 
the browser causes issues (tries to smoosh the entire email into one line).

Mike