From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 27 09:21:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A6E716A420 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:21:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank.b.scholl@web.de) Received: from fmmailgate04.web.de (fmmailgate04.web.de [217.72.192.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 925CE43D46 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:21:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from frank.b.scholl@web.de) Received: by fmmailgate04.web.de (8.12.10/8.12.10/webde Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id k2R9L6b9015994 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:21:06 +0200 Received: from [82.212.48.244] (helo=archimedes.homebase.hinterhof.org) by smtp05.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (WEB.DE 4.106 #94) id 1FNnuM-0006dN-00 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:21:06 +0200 Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:21:53 +0200 From: "Frank B. Scholl" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20060327112153.2aa6bf65.frank.b.scholl@web.de> In-Reply-To: <20060327005342.GX25392@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20060326072009.GL25392@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20060326081719.GB753@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20060327005342.GX25392@wantadilla.lemis.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.4 (GTK+ 2.8.12; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: frank.b.scholl@web.de X-Sender: frank.b.scholl@web.de Subject: Re: Programs not accepting input? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:21:09 -0000 hello, i followed this discussion so far and wondered what your techniques are to have your running programs accepting input again. in my case, this phenomenon heavily depends on the windowmanager you chose. when being on fluxbox and having a running instance of firefox, it every once in a while refuses keyboard input. i have had this with other gtk apps, too, for example sylpheed. to circumvent the problem and getting your application back to accept further keyboard input, i just switch workspaces back and forth and thats it, no matter on what windowmanager i am working. i never have desktops running, mostly isolated gtk apps, but from subjective experience i can tell that people running full blown gnome desktops, dont have such problems. as well as it does not seem to happen with qt apps for me. obviously, some windowmanagers dont deliver input correctly or some gtk apps have a problem with receiving a certain kind of message type. frank