Bug 1397969

Summary:	Randomly I cannot open menus or type
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Miro Hrončok <mhroncok>
Component:	xfwm4	Assignee:	Kevin Fenzi <kevin>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	25	CC:	kevin, nonamedotc, psabata
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Description Miro Hrončok 2016-11-23 17:26:08 UTC

Description of problem:
When I unlock my Xfce session with slock, the desktop acts weird. I can move my mouse and click buttons, but whenever a popup menu should be displayed it is not (such as context menus with right click, Xfce apps menu, or clicking in menubar in applications (File, Edit...)). Keyboard shortcuts do not work (except for Ctrl+Alt+F*) and even if some window has focus, I cannot type into it.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
slock-1.3-2.fc25.x86_64

How reproducible:
50% cases roughly, appears to be random.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Lock Xfce with slock
2. Unlock
3. Repeat if necessary.

Actual results:
As described in description.

Expected results:
Desktop should work normally.

Additional info:
Calling `DISPLAY=:0 xdotool getwindowfocus getwindowname` from another tty produces some error message but makes the desktop usable again.

Comment 1 Miro Hrončok 2016-11-24 16:28:45 UTC

This have just happened without locking anything, out of the blue in the middle of writing an e-mail in thunderbird :(

Comment 2 Miro Hrončok 2016-11-24 16:29:29 UTC

I really don't know what component I should assign this to.

Comment 3 Petr Šabata 2016-11-24 17:14:26 UTC

Are you running any apps that might be stealing your focus?  Any IMEs, perhaps?

Comment 4 Mukundan Ragavan 2016-11-24 17:18:07 UTC

Any pop ups/notifications showing up "below" on focus windows by any chance?

Also, does this seem to happen only to some programs?

Comment 5 Miro Hrončok 2016-11-24 20:24:22 UTC

(In reply to Petr Šabata from comment #3)
> Are you running any apps that might be stealing your focus?  Any IMEs,
> perhaps?
The focus is appear to change properly as I click. xdotool now tells me the active window.

(In reply to Mukundan Ragavan from comment #4)
> Any pop ups/notifications showing up "below" on focus windows by any chance?
I cannot see nor detect anything.

> Also, does this seem to happen only to some programs?
Well I can open the Chromium menu, but I still cannot type in Chromium. So I guess all apps.

Comment 6 Miro Hrončok 2016-11-24 20:25:35 UTC

(In reply to Petr Šabata from comment #3)
> Any IMEs, perhaps?
And nothing here I would be aware of.

Comment 7 Miro Hrončok 2016-12-02 17:03:20 UTC

Is there some way to know what process is eating the keyboard focus?

Comment 8 Kevin Fenzi 2016-12-02 18:41:36 UTC

Try switching to a vty (control-alt-f3) and back... I think X then logs what client had their focus lock broken? But I might be misremembering...

Comment 9 Miro Hrončok 2016-12-02 19:43:56 UTC

Switching there and back does not help. Switching, running `DISPLAY=:0 xdotool getwindowfocus getwindowname` and switching back workarounds it.

Comment 10 Miro Hrončok 2017-01-04 18:25:49 UTC

Didn't happen for a week.