Re: [E-devel] keyboard input problem

[David S. <on...@gm...>]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:29:37 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
<ra...@ra...> wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:17:30 +0100 Massimo Maiurana
> <mai...@gm...> said:
> 
> hasn't even been looked into - as such - it doesn't happen to me - so
> i can't reproduce (i have another bizarre xterm focus bug that
> appears to be an xterm thing, in that it gets focus AND key events go
> to the xterm, but it simply ignores all the key events. bizarre).
> 
> > I've already reported this problem about 3 months ago, perhaps on
> > the users list, but the problem is still there.
> > 
> > sometimes when changing virtual desktop in e17 it happens that
> > focus is correctly sent to the new desktop, same for mouse input,
> > but keyboard input remains on the previous desktop so everything I
> > type is actually sent to the window where I was before :(

I see something very similar, it's what I wanted to report in trac,
though I think there are already one or two reports of it in there.
Now that trac is reported to be fixed, I'll try again later.

I have 6 desktops, set up as three rows of two columns.  Four of them
are used for specific apps that are maximised with no borders (proper
fullscreen just is not the way I want things, this is my fake
fullscreen).  These apps are open at all times.  I constantly switch
between these apps by just moving the mouse through the screen edge.

I'm using sloppy focus.  "Refocus last window on desktop switch" is
turned on, as is "Revert focus when it is lost".

One of these "fullscreen" app desktops often has two such apps on it.
That's the only ones where alt-tab works OK to switch between them.

Quite often, but randomly, the switching of desktops leaves the
keyboard focus somewhere other than the current app on the screen.  An
alt-tab on the desktop with two apps usually does not switch the apps,
but will bring the keyboard focus back to where it should be.  

Some of the apps are only maximised vertically, leaving some space to
see the desktop.  On those, when the keyboard focus is wrong after a
desktop switch, waving the mouse across the the window border fixes it.

The apps have mouse focus, but any app that shows a text cursor when it
has focus wont show that if the focus is in the wrong place due to this
bug.

I suspect it might the borderless nature of the windows.