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 -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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