Hussein Shafie wrote:
> Well, I can reproduce the above behavior (with V2.11, not with V3). I
> started Gnome/Metacity/Java 1.5 to make sure I could reproduce it. I
> tried both variants.
>
> The problem is absolutely not related to complex generated content
> having value-editor() and label(). Unfortunately, it can happen anytime.
>
>>From time to time, mostly on Linux, more with some window managers and
> less with others (mwm), the document view and its descendants such as
> attribute editors completely loose the keyboard focus. We don't know why
> and we have not found a workaround.
>
> This does not mean that XXE is frozen:
>
> * In most cases (such as the one you have described), simply use the
> mouse and click anywhere inside the document view. You'll see the caret
> blink again (means: the document view has the keyboard focus).
>
> * In severe cases, you'll have iconify and then deiconify (to move the
> window, to push it to back and bring it to front again, etc. That is,
> interact with the window manager) XXE in order to be able to type something.
I can confirm that interacting with the window manager, e.g. by clicking
with the mouse, brings back the keyboard focus to XXE (Ctrl-q won't work
either, so is it only the document view that is out of focus?). That's
not nice, but once I know this I can cope well with it.
>>(The behaviour I observed before was slightly different: then, XXE did
>>not display the new, but unconfirmed value, and never came back from
>>trying to reload the stylesheet, always showing the hourglass. Using the
>>mouse then was just as impossible as using the keyboard, except for
>>closing the whole document with Ctrl-Shift-W.)
>
> I cannot reproduce this behavior which is totally different from the
> above one -- much more severe.
It is indeed a very strange phenomenon: Trying to tune back my config to
what it was before in order to reproduce the "more severe" case, I now
only see the more lenient behaviour you observe. (Yet I'm sure having
watched precisely what I described. Bizarre: The more severe variant of
the bug sometimes even occurred after confirming the attribute value,
and sometimes even when the stock attribute tool was used.)
Thank you for your help in clarifying the issue as much as was possible.
Yves Forkl
