tag 597186 unreproducible , moreinfo
thanks

On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:56:08 +0200 Roland Koebler wrote:

> Package: xpdf-reader
> Version: 3.02-1.4+lenny2
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> xpdf has a menu, which opens on a right mouse click. Like with most
> other menus, while the right mouse-button is kept pressed, the mouse
> can only be used to select a menu-entry, and the keyboard is ignored.
> 
> Normally, if you e.g. click on "open" in this menu, the menu disappears
> and the open-dialog appears. But sometimes (maybe due to bouncing mouse-
> buttons or a repeated right mouse-click under high load) the open-dialog
> appears *and* the menu appears again, and the menu behaves as if the right
> mouse button would be kept pressed, no matter if the mouse buttons are
> released again or not. But the menu does not accept mouse clicks, since
> the (modal) open-dialog is open, and the open-dialog does not accept mouse
> clicks, since the menu grabbed the mouse (and keyboard).
> 
> This causes that neither mouse nor keyboard are usable anymore by any
> program, which makes the entire system unusable until you (a) reboot
> or (b) log in remotely and kill xpdf.
> 
> I guess that this problem is caused by bad mouse-event handling, because
> it seems like the menu gets the mouse-press-event but (I guess because
> the open-dialog opened) doen't get the release-event or any following
> mouse-events.

hi,

i'm not able to reproduce this with the newer version in
testing/unstable (3.02-11).  can you try that version?  its gotten a
lot of fixes since the lenny release.

thanks,
mike



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