On Sunday, 26 March 2006 at 1:36:57 -0600, Rick C. Petty wrote: > On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 05:50:09PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> In the last month or two I've seen increasing occurrences of programs >> refusing keyboard input after they've been running for a while >> (between hours and days). They still respond to the mouse. At first >> I thought it was hardware, but it happens on a number of different >> machines, and only with certain programs, all of them X clients. > > <snip> > >> One thing that the machines have in common is that they all run x2x > > I noticed very similar problems on both 5.4-stable and 6.0-RELEASE > boxes running xorg. I've never used x2x, but I was running x11vnc, > which I ended up assuming was the culprit. It's a really strange > behavior-- I would have two rxvts side-by-side, one accepting > keyboard input and the other I had to cut/paste text using the > mouse. It was even more frustrating when it would happen in gaim & > mozilla windows! The same gaim process wouldn't accept keyboard > input in the conversation window but the buddy window did responded > to commands (e.g. control-A brought up the accounts window).
Yes, this sounds quite close to what I'm experiencing. On Sunday, 26 March 2006 at 15:43:07 -0600, Rick C. Petty wrote: > On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 07:17:19PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> >> Is the problem that the clients aren't taking focus or have focus >> but aren't accepting keyboard input? > > My problem wasn't about focus. I know the window had input focus (my > settings change the border color for focused windows), but the keyboard > events weren't accepted by certain clients. Same here. As mentioned in the original message, I can use the mouse to open a new window under firefox. The new window will accept keyboard input, the old one won't. It's almost as if it's deadlocking on input. Reminder: my final question was "how do I go about debugging this problem?". Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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