Re: Programs not accepting input?

On Sunday, 26 March 2006 at 1:36:57 -0600, Rick C. Petty wrote:
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 05:50:09PM +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.

<snip>

One thing that the machines have in common is that they all run x2x

I noticed very similar problems on both 5.4-stable and 6.0-RELEASE
boxes running xorg. I've never used x2x, but I was running x11vnc,
which I ended up assuming was the culprit. It's a really strange
behavior-- I would have two rxvts side-by-side, one accepting
keyboard input and the other I had to cut/paste text using the
mouse. It was even more frustrating when it would happen in gaim &
mozilla windows! The same gaim process wouldn't accept keyboard
input in the conversation window but the buddy window did responded
to commands (e.g. control-A brought up the accounts window).

Yes, this sounds quite close to what I'm experiencing.

On Sunday, 26 March 2006 at 15:43:07 -0600, Rick C. Petty wrote:
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 07:17:19PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:

Is the problem that the clients aren't taking focus or have focus
but aren't accepting keyboard input?

My problem wasn't about focus. I know the window had input focus (my
settings change the border color for focused windows), but the keyboard
events weren't accepted by certain clients.

Same here. As mentioned in the original message, I can use the mouse
to open a new window under firefox. The new window will accept
keyboard input, the old one won't. It's almost as if it's deadlocking
on input.

Reminder: my final question was "how do I go about debugging this
problem?".

Greg
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