I thought I was losing my mind! I have also been experiencing this issue, and today finally managed to narrow it down to a specific cause. My issue starts when I am making use of the CTRL+SHIFT+PRTSCR shortcut to take a screenshot of an area you select.
I use this function frequently, and it sometimes results in my mouse functionality being isolated to the window that currently has focus. If I move my mouse cursor over another window I can see that the window registers the mouse position (for example hover animations are triggered) and scrolling works, but left and right click do not register in that window until I use ALT+TAB to change focus to that window. If I hover my mouse pointer over the top bar, the pointer icon changes to a + which is the same icon that it changes to when you take the screenshot, so it seems almost like the screenshot overlay mechanism doesn't get reset/cleared correctly. I hope this helps! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/362359 Title: Focus gets stuck to a window - impossible to select other windows Status in xorg-server package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Alright, terribly annoying bug that gets me to reboot several times a day, but very hard to understand how to trigger it. What happens: after some time of usage, you get "stuck" in a window. Idem est, you can not select another window. You can still click, select and drag in the window that has the focus, but clicking on other windows, or on the panel, just doesn't work. Notes: - With window I don't mean "application window". For example it can only be the page view in firefox, and you won't be able to click the buttons or the URL field. It can also be the main text window in xchat, and you wont be able to click in the user list or to change the chatroom. - The click seems to be grabbed by the window having the focus, even if you click outside of it. For example, using xchat, if the main text window has focus, clicking and dragging in the user list will actually select text in the main text window. - Using xev, it seems that clics do not get passed to the correct window at all (nothing received) - I have no idea what triggers this as sometimes it will trigger alone - pc works, I leave it for an hour, I come back, the problem is triggered - Curious effect now: dragging and dropping to another window gives focus to the window, and seems to be the only way to do so. For example if in firefox the main page view window has the focus and I cant click the buttons, drag and dropping text to the buttons gives the focus to the buttons, and I can't clic the page view window anymore. Drag and dropping a button to the page view window gives it its focus back.... Additional info: * Compiz disabled * Intel graphic card * Ubuntu jaunty - latest patches * Using a laptop, with an USB mouse HAL, xserver, I have no idea where to file this bug into. I hope it will be fixed before the release, it is really terribly annoying :s Please tell me if there is any other detail I can provide. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/362359/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
