Re: Serious regression with window focus in 2.3.3_rc5
Re: Serious regression with window focus in 2.3.3_rc5
- Subject: Re: Serious regression with window focus in 2.3.3_rc5
- From: Tom Lane <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:23:34 -0400
- Comments: In-reply-to Mick Mueck <email@hidden> message dated "Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:43:07 -0400"
Mick Mueck <email@hidden> writes:
> There is a well known issue with MacBook Pros (circa early 2007) in
> that they lose keystrokes. Apple even released a fix for it after
> volumes of complaints - it helped a little, but the issue still
> persists. I've convinced myself it's a design flaw they can't fully
> remedy. So the big question is - are you using a MacBook Pro of that
> vintage?
In the first place, no, this is a 2008 MBP.
In the second place, it is not a keyboard-hardware problem. It is
entirely clear that the software thinks it is losing focus, because
the window highlighting changes to the not-focused state; and then
back again a moment later. Or sometimes not --- I have also seen
it drop focus from all windows and stay that way until clicked on.
X11 remains the foreground app throughout, or at least I never see
any change in the menu bar to suggest differently.
The thing that has gotten markedly worse in rc5 is that sometimes
(often) when the focus comes back, it is reassigned to a different
X11 window than before. I do not have a clear pattern as to which
one gets focus instead. It's not as easy as the one under the mouse
(if it was, the usability hit wouldn't be nearly so bad). I thought
for awhile that it was going to the latest-created window but I
think I've seen counterexamples to that theory.
And yes, I've got focus-follows-mouse on.
regards, tom lane
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