Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 22:31:02 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Programs not accepting input? Message-ID: <20060326203101.GJ77563@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <20060326111317.V35431@fledge.watson.org> References: <20060326072009.GL25392@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20060326081719.GB753@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20060326111317.V35431@fledge.watson.org>
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On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 11:16:36AM +0000, Robert Watson wrote: > On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, 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? > > > >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. > > I've noticed that KDE's window manager, especially the version currently in > ports, seems to occasionally have focus management problems. If I use > ctrl-alt-tab to manually switch the focus, keyboard and some mouse input > works properly, and after a program exits, things start working right. I I'm seeing focus problems every few months running WindowMaker, also in a 2 head configuration. The focus stick with one window - you can close that one using mouse, but you still won't be able get focus on another window. A restart of windowmaker won't help, so far I was forced doing a complete X restart whenever this happened. Not shure when it started, likely with an update from an old XFree to an Xorg release (installed xorg-6.8.2). -- B.Walter http://www.bwct.de http://www.fizon.de bernd@bwct.de info@bwct.de support@fizon.de
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