I am not sure if it occurs under window managers with different focus methods, though I was not able to reproduce it under xfce4.
When I try to enter text in e.g the urlbar in firefox, focus is sometimes seeming a bit weird, as if the urlbar is flashing trying to open suggested matches (based on search history), but then loses focus and closes again. Right-clicking inside the browser-window and then left-clicking outside the context menu to close it, before trying the urlbar again, tends to temporarily make the searchbar act as expected. I also sometimes seem to have issues getting relevant url-suggestions when the urlbar does open its dropdown of browsing history, usually when I started typing to append characters to an already typed-out url. Rather than suggest previous searches that resulted from appending to the url (usually subpages on the same domain), firefox tends to suggest wildly different urls now and then -- only sometimes suggesting urls on the same domain. Now either or both of these two issues this could just be firefox (or gtk) doing just gtk-things, but I have not heard much talk about such issues (savefor maybe an earlier thread on focus issues from a while back on this list?). Has anyone else had similar experiences with (I suppose) gtk-applications? Is this something some of the slightly esoteric application-specific ctwm-options might help solve (IgnoreTransient, DontSetInactive) ?
