On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 11:47:06PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > Have had this issue a few times recently while trying to use Xastir on > Ubuntu 14.04 during SAR missions. > > After a few uses of dialog boxes, suddenly am finding that I can't type into > the text fields. This seems unrelated to keyboard focus issues, and I haven't > correlated it with any particular events during the run. > > The issue is cleared if I exit Xastir and restart, but returns after a few > uses. > > I can paste data into the text boxes by typing into another window, > highlighting text, and then middle-clicking the text box. It applies to all > dialogs --- object creation, messaging, coordinate calculator, you name it. > > Has anyone else seen this crop up? > > Windowing system is "gnome flashback." Wondering if there's some weird > Motif/Gnome3 interaction problem. Have not yet tried it under Unity (which I > hate (hate, hate, hate)). > > Since this impacts object and message input, it makes for a very bad problem > during active SAR missions, and I'd like to start nailing it down. I'm > working an ELT mission as I type this, and the issue resurfaced after exactly > two dialog boxes.
I just thought I'd follow up on that, as I appear to have found the trigger for the problem, if not its source and solution. On my Ubuntu laptop I've created an Xastir icon (launcher) to double click for ease of access. I had set this launcher up to run "env LANG=C xastir" instead of just "xastir." Only when I started running xastir from the command line to track down the issue did I find that it appears this LANG setting is what's breaking it for me. By running xastir from the command line with and without the "env LANG=C" I can pretty well conclude that doing the LANG setting is what triggers this annoying bug, which must be a bug in openmotif or its interaction with the gnome3/flashback desktop. Without "env LANG=C", the dialog boxes never break, and with "env LANG=C" they break almost immediately upon doing anything that changes the dialog shape (selecting "Probability circles" or "Signpost", and so forth). Once broken, ALL dialogs are broken -- no keyboard input into any text box works. So if you are seeing this problem, and you are using LANG=C in the start-up, then try it without. I do not recall what problems the default LANG was causing, but this one issue alone has bitten me so many times recently that I'm going to stop setting this on Ubuntu. I don't think I have enough information to make this into an openmotif bug report, though. And from the look of the openmotif issue tracker (which has all bugs in the NEW state, many of them not touched since 1997), opening one seems pointless anyway. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m] _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
