Hi! I'm seeing a (minor) focus issue too, but i think it is not the same issue you are expiriencing.
my (minor) focus issue is with the mouse, not responding to clicks. but pressing a keyboard-key fixes the issue for me. the first pressed key also get's lost. anyway, while i read through your gathered material, i put some quotes in there, to make it easier to read (i prefixed the excerpts from the bugreports you mentioned with ">>") On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:20:12 +0000 "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > I've had a Xorg focus issue for half a year, but only recently made a > problem report, and in it I tried to describe the problem accurately: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/137748: >>I have a focus issue in Xorg. It seems that whenever I click in a >>window area that "does not process clicks well", the focus is locked >>on >>that area (forever). Examples: xterm doesn't "process clicks well" (at >>all, actually); after clicking in an xterm window, the focus will not >>follow the pointer, and when the pointer is outside the xterm window, >>clicks do not register at pointer location. It's the same with (the >>window manager's) window borders and title bars. Menu bars (like "File >>| Edit | View | ...") seem to "process clicks well"; after clicking a >>menu bar, the mouse works as usual (until bad click). > As it seems, almost noone has this issue. I didn't get much of a > reply, so I decided to consult with some of you Xorg developers. > > I did some googling and browsed the xorg and xorg-devel list archives, > and collected some other reports which seem to describe more or less > the same symptoms, with a bit of flavouring: > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2009-May/045538.html >>Every so often (at unpredictable times), X stops responding to mouse >>clicks or the keyboard. I can move the mouse with both my Bluetooth >>mouse and my touchpad, but clicking has no effect. On the keyboard, >>not even numlock has any effect. > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2009-June/046247.html Greg Martyn (cc'd), Subject: Mouse doesn't work until I logout. Affects all DM's: >> First, when I first start my computer up and log in, the mouse acts >> erratically. The cursor moves around like normal, but when I click >> it's as if the click event is happening somewhere else on the screen. >> For example, I may have the cursor positioned over a button but when >> I click, the button doesn't get clicked. Occasionally it will >> trigger a click on something completely unrelated. if my thinkpad is undocked and i am using my thinkpads trackpoint i see this too. but i found, that touching my touchpad once fixes this. after that, the trackpoint works smothly. (maybe the same bug, maybe not. i will try to reproduce and file a bug report with the necessary info, but since i have to undock for this, this has to be somewhen else ) >> Second, a problem that just started 4 days ago: I am unable to click >> the menubar in firefox (and unable to Alt+F to get the file menu) >> even >> in safe mode. Also, right clicking in the web page doesn't work. this one seems to be another problem. >>Also >> wherever I click in the Chromium Inspect Element window, it is >> treated as if I were holding Alt -- it wants to move the window. and another one... > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/362359 >>What happens: after some time of usage, you get "stuck" in a window. >>Idem est, you can not select another window. You can still click, >>select and drag in the window that has the focus, but clicking on >>other >>windows, or on the panel, just doesn't work. this one seems to be xinerama and/or synaptics related (to judge from the discussion there) > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/361983/ >>At every moment, my mouse lose the focus and I can't select anything. >>It's like the top window is no more recognized; sometimes using the >>mouse right button on an application window, I get the contextual menu >>for desktop. seems to be similar to the ubuntu 362359 one... > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-173/+bug/229123 >>The bug occurs in all X applications Gnome or KDE, it doesn't matter. >>Sometimes for instance when I use Firefox I am unable to click on a >>hyperlink, or alt+tab to another window. alt+f or alt+f1 still works >>and enables the menu. opening up a menu temporarily fixes the focus >>problems. as do right-clicking some times. Whenever I am unable to >>click buttons or other widgets in an application, it seems I am able >>to >>use the tab button to move the focus to the widget I am trying to >>access. These problems occurs in hardy. another problem, this one seems to be not so severe... > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/364489 similar to ubuntu 362359 (above)? > http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-698789.html similar to ubuntu 362359 (above)? > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=usb/76732 >>When using a USB KVM switch, after switching back and forth from >>another >>machine a few times, mouse behaviour functions erroneously in Xorg >>(tested with both fluxbox and gnome 2.8). The mouse seems to focus on >>the previous location instead of the current position. For example, if >>having last used the mouse in a window, even if you switch to another >>window, the mouse will behave as if it was still positioned over the >>previous window (right click results in menu for previous window, >>etc.). > > Note the last report, which dates back to 2005-01-27. I find this > surprizing because this issue appeared for me only half a year ago. it seems to me, that these are all different problems. (the ubuntu one reported several times) > > I want to get this issue fixed, but I'm not familiar with Xorg > internals or debugging. I'll look up some docs in my interest. If I > understand, very few of you have the ability to (reliably) reproduce > the issue. So if anyone wants me test something, I'll gladly follow > instructions. Meanwhile I'm rebuilding Xorg in debug mode in case I'll > need to do some GDBing. my only question would be: does hitting a keyboard key, solve your issue? but that would be too easy, wouldn't it? i catched me several times now composing this message and subconsciously working around my bug. :) Sincerely, Florian
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