Bug 743906

Summary: [TURKS] Crippling problem with window focus makes X unusable
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Matthew Miller <mattdm>
Component: xorg-x11-serverAssignee: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 15CC: airlied, jglisse, kevin, maxamillion, mcepl, xgl-maint
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xsession-errors (nothing obviously useful here)
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X log (also nothing obviously bad) none

Description Matthew Miller 2011-10-06 12:41:02 UTC
After using an XFCE session for a few minutes, focus gets "locked" on an arbitrary open window and will not switch. The window could be under others; in that case, it will not raise. The window decorations do not respond, but alt-f4 closes the window, in which case focus will shift to another window which will have the same problem.

I've had this happen to me before but only sporadically. Now it's happening reliably. I've tried changing various settings related to focus in the window manager, but none seem to make the problem go away.

As you can imagine, this makes XFCE completely unusable.

I haven't made any changes to the system recently. Package updates have been applied, but I've used the system extensively since the last update to xfwm4 (xfwm4-4.8.1-3.fc15, currently installed), so I don't think that's it (that was the fix for bug #670173).

Comment 1 Matthew Miller 2011-10-06 12:49:22 UTC
Oooh. Good news, everyone. I threw up my hands and switched to Gnome 3, and _it's happening there too_.

So, yeah. Not sure what to blame or even what to do. 

Frustrating technology morning.

Comment 2 Matthew Miller 2011-10-06 12:58:33 UTC
In WindowMaker, the focus can apparently even get locked on a particular _widget_, like a checkbox.

Comment 3 Matthew Miller 2011-10-06 13:09:31 UTC
And this happens in a new, clean user account I created just for testing purposes too.

Comment 4 Matthew Miller 2011-10-06 13:14:13 UTC
Created attachment 526702 [details]
xsession-errors (nothing obviously useful here)

Comment 5 Matthew Miller 2011-10-06 13:14:48 UTC
Created attachment 526703 [details]
X log (also nothing obviously bad)

Comment 6 Matěj Cepl 2011-10-06 23:47:55 UTC
Thanks for the bug report.  We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue.

Please attach

* your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf, if available),
* X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log*; check with grep Backtrace /var/log/Xorg* which logs might be the most interesting ones, if none matches, then the one we have is enough),
* output of the dmesg command, and
* system log (/var/log/messages)

to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link above.

We haven't seen this bug from anybody else, so, if we should any chance of dealing with this bug we need more information to be able to reproduce the issue here. Are you able to find out anything which makes your situation different from all other users of this hardware?

We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information.

Thank you for your cooperation and helping to make Fedora more awesome!

Comment 7 Dave Airlie 2012-02-11 17:46:51 UTC
IS there any common app between your desktops btw?

This really doesn't sound like a GPU specific problem, since its still rendering stuff okay.

does it happen in gnome fallback?

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of '15' have been closed as WONTFIX.

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