Bug#719496: freeorion: input textfields doesn't work after a while.

[Markus Koschany]

Hi Yann and Marius,

I'm in contact with the developers of FreeOrion and they asked me to relay
a question to you.

Quote from http://www.freeorion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=7719

> This is still easily repeatable for me today, I can open up options, go to the
> directories page, confirm I can type, alt-tab out, click back in, and then I 
> cannot type (or rather, it doesn't accept my input, I think it is reading it all
> as 'alt-a', 'alt-b', etc) until I hit the ALT key again 
> (has to be the same one I used to alt-tab), and then everything is fine. 
> The alt-lock does not get initiated just by hitting the alt-key a first time, 
> it seems to only start by alt-tab. 

You can switch with ALT-Tab between different windows and FreeOrion and sometimes you
can't type because this locks your keyboard input. Can you confirm that pressing
ALT again in this case allows you to type again?

Another idea:

> Reading the debian bug about the inconsistent time this problem occurs I would like to
> know if some notification mechanism snitches away the focus of the window.
> Maybe that is something your user should test with some x11 event tracing.
> xtrace or xev maybe show us the relevant hint.

Can you try reproducing this bug and showing us the output of xtrace?

xtrace freeorion > xtrace.log

Perhaps another application interferes with FreeOrion and this might be a way to track
down the issue.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Markus




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