Bug#704264: evince: key event focus problem with tiling window managers such as awesome

[Helmut Grohne]

Package: evince
Version: 3.4.0-3.1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream
Control: affects -1 + awesome

Dear gnome maintainers,

The current evince has a very nasty bug affecting users of tiling window
managers. At some point it would enter a mode where the cursor keys can
no longer be used for scrolling the document. Some other keys (such as
Ctrl-f) continue to work. This situation is most often triggered by
switching workspaces, tags or whatever your window manager calls them. A
very detailed description of the situations is given here:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=118763

One user tried to track down the issue with help from the awesome
developers. Those notes can be found here:

http://www.mail-archive.com/awesome@naquadah.org/msg05041.html

Yet another user suggests that this issue might be fixed in recent gnome
releases:

https://bitbucket.org/mathematicalcoffee/maximus-gnome-shell-extension/issue/13/up-down-arrow-keys-not-working-in-evince

Helmut

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Versions of packages evince depends on:
ii  evince-common            3.4.0-3.1
ii  gnome-icon-theme         3.4.0-2
ii  libatk1.0-0              2.4.0-2
ii  libc6                    2.13-38
ii  libcairo-gobject2        1.12.2-3
ii  libcairo2                1.12.2-3
ii  libevdocument3-4         3.4.0-3.1
ii  libevview3-3             3.4.0-3.1
ii  libgail-3-0              3.4.2-6
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0       2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libgnome-keyring0        3.4.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0               3.4.2-6
ii  libice6                  2:1.0.8-2
ii  libnautilus-extension1a  3.4.2-1+build1
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.30.0-1
ii  libsm6                   2:1.2.1-2
ii  libx11-6                 2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxml2                  2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu1
ii  shared-mime-info         1.0-1+b1
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

Versions of packages evince recommends:
ii  dbus-x11  1.6.8-1
ii  gvfs      1.12.3-4

Versions of packages evince suggests:
pn  nautilus      <none>
ii  poppler-data  0.4.5-10
ii  unrar         1:4.1.4-1