Re: [wmii] java apps stop receiving keyboard events

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Kris Maglione <maglione.k_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 02:44:55PM -0800, Suraj Kurapati wrote:
>>
>> The app is jEdit <http://jedit.org> version 4.3pre16. The dialogs are
>> the "File Open" (Control-O) and incremental search bar
>> (Control-comma).
>
> Ok, that's the only Java app I have installed (because it's the only one you
> report bugs for),

Hehe, sorry about that. That's really the only Java app I use.

> and the ^O dialog woks fine for me.

I can understand. It feels like the bug occurs randomly sometimes. I
wish I could freeze the application in that state and debug what is
happening.

>> I think I may have narrowed down the problem this morning. I assume
>> that wmii reads keystrokes first from X.org and checks for the various
>> keybindings. If it doesn't find any, it passes them to the currently
>> focused client.
>
> Nope, it tells the server which bindings it needs and the server sends it
> only those bindings (with the exception of chained keys, which require a
> grab after the first key press).

Ah good! That is certainly more efficient than what I had imagined.

> It's more likely that it's somehow not
> getting input focus back (or doesn't think it is). Does its titlebar get any
> unusual borders?

Nope, nothing strange about the borders. I can move the client to the
floating layer, or to another view, and bring it back just fine.

Mouse clicks and drags work fine also. I suppose mouse focus is
different from keyboard focus in X?

Thanks for your consideration.
Received on Sun Jan 11 2009 - 01:25:27 UTC