Re: Cannot use keyboard sometimes after changing desktops

Dani <[email protected]> Mon, 4 Apr 2016 21:45:36 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.openbox
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dani:
> Dani:
>> Windows do get focus and text fields get a flashing text cursor after I
>> click on them. They still don't get keystrokes.
>>
>> Unfocusing (middle mouse) does not help. Shading, unshading, maximizing
>> or changing focus between windows by clicking do not help.
>>
>> I noticed that the problem also goes away by doing any of these: moving
>> a window, cycling focus with alt and tab keys, showing an OpenBox menu.
> 
> Actually the cursor won't always appear / the text fields don't always
> get focus.

I noticed that the behaviour depends on the program. In the Firefox
based web browser the text cursor appears but in Pidgin I cannot focus
on text fields and also none of the Pidgin menus open when I try to open
them. Pidgin uses GTK+ toolkit in case that matters.
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