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: Bill Janssen <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 15:11:14 PDT
- Comments: In-reply-to Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden> message dated "Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:42:31 -0700."
Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Apr 16, 2009, at 15:23, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> I've seen an icon quickly flash into the dock and then leave when I've
> seen this occur, and it happens with other applications in the
> foreground (it's happened to me when using Terminal.app).
>
> Therefore, I'm convinced there is NOTHING we can do in X11 to fix the
> problem. There may be a way to turn on logging in the window server,
> so you can determine what process is stealing the focus...
Did we ever find out anything more about this? It's killing me; I lose
focus for a couple of seconds, then it usually comes right back, but
that's enough to swallow some keystrokes.
Jeremy, did you find a way to turn on logging in the window server?
Just being able to see all the focus change events might help.
It would be nice if Apple had a mailing list for the window server, too.
Bill
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