Re: Opera Dropdown Breaks Textfields

"Leo Przybylski" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.opera.linux
Organization University of Arizona
Message-ID <op.uxqbrao3t0bdg1@joab>
I will try that. I do use scim, but most apps work fine. Also, I use skype  
which is built with QT as well. Someone suggested further back in the  
thread that it may be a QT issue, and that may be the case because this  
happens in skype. Actually, skype is the only other app where this happens.

LEo

On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:16:52 -0700, Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen  
<[email protected]> wrote:

> "Leo Przybylski" <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> I am encountering a bug on Ubuntu Jaunty with Opera 9.6. Whenever I  
>> active
>> a dropdown and make a selection, my text boxes and text fields longer
>> work. That is, the cursor moves to a text field, but nothing happens  
>> when
>> I type. This is not just with forms, but anywhere in the browser. For
>> example, when I type into the url bar and the autocomplete dropdown
>> appears, I select one of the urls. Now none of the textfields in the
>> application will work. I am unable to edit the url further. The only way
>> to recover is to restart opera. Is there any way around this? Has anyone
>> encountered this besides myself?
>
> Do you have an input method running (e.g. scim)?  There used to be a
> mismatch between scim and X11 that would cause all key input to get
> blocked in some cases (when a window popped up while typing).  I thought
> that was fixed a while ago, though.
>
> I think opera has a debug command line switch to print out all the key
> events it receives as well (-debug-keys, maybe? -help should list
> it...).  That should indicate whether it is the system or opera that
> drops the events.
>
> eirik
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