Re: Programs not accepting input?

On Sunday, 26 March 2006 at 19:17:19 +1100, 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?

The latter. It's not a question of focus.

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.

Interesting. I've seen this one too: my mail window is at the left of
the right-hand monitor on wantadilla (:0.1). Frequently when I move
from :0.0 to 0:1, the window manager will highlight the window on
:0.1, but focus remains with some window on :0.0. If I move further
right and then back again, focus catches up with the correct window.
That's mainly irritating; the problem I describe above is annoying.

The fact that new firefox windows accept input suggests that it's
somewhere in X.

What X server?

echunga:

vendor string: The X.Org Foundation
vendor release number: 60801000
X.Org version: 6.8.1

wantadilla:

vendor string: The X.Org Foundation
vendor release number: 60802000
X.Org version: 6.8.2

I don't think that the difference in version numbers is the issue.

Greg
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