Re: keyboard focus stolen

On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 00:25 +0530, Ritesh Khadgaray wrote:
Hello,

Occasionally when i kill certain application on my system such as
evolution, or epiphany the keyboard focus is stolen. I suspect
metacity-dialog as culprit. Has anyone heard of a similar issue ?


When the keyboard focus is stolen the background process, video/audio
play fine. The mouse is fully functional. The window border's are not
updated., and i cannot zap ( Ctrl+Alt+BckSp ) do not work :(

TIA

I have this exact issue. It has only cropped up since I installed
Ubuntu Fesity 64 bit to test out 64 bit (gnome 2.16 -> 2.18 as well)

It happens to me about 2x a month and I have been unable to isolate it
to closing an app or a particular app, but the end result is exactly as
explained - hard power cycle is always needed to get the keyboard back
while the mouse still works fine.

-Greg

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