Re: [E-devel] E17 BUG CALL

[P P. <pp...@gm...>]

On 06/21/2012 07:07 PM, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> (sorry if this doubles up - thought I replied to this last night...)
>
> On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 01:51 +0800, P Purkayastha wrote:
>> You will hate my bugs, but you asked for it ;-)
>>
>> To reproduce (my configuration):
>> ->  Set window focus:
>> ---->  sloppy
>> ---->  all new windows get focus
>> ---->  all options ticked under Window Focus ->  advanced ->  miscellaneous
>> ->  EFM is unloaded (so, no desktop icons, etc)
>>
>>
>> Bug 1: (Lost key input)
>> ->  Close a window using keybindings, for instance, Ctrl-d on a terminal,
>> so that the pointer is on the desktop after the window is closed
>> ->  E stops accepting all key input (for example try alt-tab, alt-esc, etc)
>> ->  You can make E start re-accepting key input by focusing on or opening
>> a new window
>>
>> Status:
>> ->  Has been around for about a year.
>> ->  Very hard to reproduce
>> ->  But experience at least once daily
>
> When input is dead like this, if you type letters, do they appear on the
> desktop?  I hit a similar version, but I can't tell if it's a bug:
>
> 1) Open a window.
> 2) Flip to a virtual desktop with no open windows.
> 3) Type some chars.  They appear on the desktop and don't seem to do
> anything.
> 4) Pressing escape returns behavior to normal.
>

No, nothing appears on the desktop. Mainly because I don't use desktop 
icons and I keep the file manager module unloaded. However, I do know 
that pressing escape doesn't help in my case.

Your case actually sounds like a problem with efm.