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Bug 141492

Summary: desktop drops focus, requiring CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE to restore
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Charlie Bennett <ccb>
Component: xorg-x11Assignee: Søren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version: 3.0CC: kem, shillman
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Description Charlie Bennett 2004-12-01 16:33:05 UTC 
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Description of problem:

Running RHEL3 U4.  On occasion, closing application windows
will steal focus.  When this happens it becomes impossible to
use the gnome panel or to manually set focus on another application.
I've seen this on exit from Evolution.  I've seen it when gaim
dismisses it's reconnect dialog.

I use real-estate based focus.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
XFree86-4.3.0-71.EL

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. launch Evolution
2. exit Evolution
3.
  

Actual Results:  The focus for the windowing system is irretrievably lost.

Expected Results:  I should be able set focus by moving the mouse into another window.  I should also be able to use Gnome panel.

Additional info:

No way out but to trash the session with CTRL+ALT+DEL.  Not running Evolution is easy, doing without GAIM is a not.
Comment 1 Charlie Bennett 2004-12-16 17:05:46 UTC 
More data: I can get back on my feet with killall metacity.
Looks like a metacity problem.

problem also shows up when trying to launch vncviewer
Comment 2 Søren Sandmann Pedersen 2005-01-04 21:35:00 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 137062 ***
Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 19:07:23 UTC 
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.