After a while playing with this problem, I have got it down to be an
annoyance, rather than a showstopper.

Not being a Linux guru, my opinions are of limited value, but I firmly
believe this is an X-Server/XOrg problem. I've seen it happen under
GNOME and KDE, and with all combinations of window managers, and
decorators.

There appears to be a connection with ALT-TAB ... as soon as the mouse
focus issue happens, you lose ALT-TAB.

Anyway, I have discovered that if I activate ALT-TAB as soon as I login,
it seems to "protect" my system, and I don't seem to lose mouse focus.

I have also discovered, that CTL-ALT-D (show desktop) seems to recover
mouse focus ... once all windows are minimised to the taskbar, then ALT-
TAB seems to work again, and mouse focus is restored. Hopefully this
workaround will prove useful to people, and can remove the need to
logout/login again, or to restart the machine with the loss of data that
implies.

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Mouse focus gets stuck over control objects
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/375905
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