Unclutter is causing this. Starting Unclutter with the -noevents option
is a workaround.
A better description of the problem: when hovering the cursor over a
text input widget of a not-focused window, a cursor will start blinking
in that widget when the Unclutter timeout expires.
** Package chan
Thank you for taking your time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better, but this isn't a bug in the ubuntu meta packages. Marking
for reassignment
** Package changed: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) => ubuntu
** Tags added: needs-reassignment
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Applications lose track of window focus status
Here's a similar bug in Debian that was marked unreproducible:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=240271
And here's a thread about this problem in the Ubuntu forums:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1106805
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #240271
http://bugs.debian
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33742354/Dependencies.txt
** Attachment added: "XsessionErrors.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33742356/XsessionErrors.txt
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Applications lose track of window focus status
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/452313
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