on Sun, Mar 31, 2002, Steve Cooper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >From "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com>, on Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at > >03:02:14AM -0800: > > on Thu, Mar 28, 2002, Paul Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I've been using the galeon/mozilla-browser/mozilla-psm combo for about 6 > > > months now and love it. I'm always using the stuff out of unstable > > > although most of my system is Woody (I do it with apt-get -t unstable). > > > > > > However, on one of the three Debian boxes I use regularly I have this > > > very odd problem where text input boxes lose focus all by themselves > > > after about 30-40 seconds; I'll be typing away in a text box for example > > > and all of a sudden none of my characters are getting printed; I have to > > > click again with the mouse then it works for a while then loses focus > > > again. This happens in any text entry box: URL, on a web page, even in > > > a basic authentication dialogue. > > > > Check for any open pages with a Meta-Refresh pragma. This will grab > > focus from the current text dialog even if you don't loose window focus > > itself. I've had to tune back a few of our network monitoring tools (or > > access them in a different browser) because of aggressive refresh > > frequencies. > > > > Peace. > > > > -- > > Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> > > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ > ---end quoted text--- > > It's strange. For me I only have the focus problems in Mozilla, not > Galeon. I'm pretty up to date in Unstable. > > The symptom in Mozilla is that I lose the blinking text cursor in an > text box. Switch to another window and back restores the text box's > focus. > > I hadn't seen this until recently. But I also recently switched to > fluxbox from WindowMaker. So I was wondering if fluxbox was > triggering the glitch.
Same symptoms in Galeon under WindowMaker. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act: Because the Republicans had Enron. www.politechbot.com/docs/cbdtpa/hollings.s2048.032102.html
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