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Description of problem: I run fvwm. I have focus set to follow mouse, yet every time I start virt-manager, then try to type something in an xterm, when I hit "Return", virt-manager pops up the "New VM" dialog. My mouse is in the xterm, why on earth is virt-manager intercepting my Return key? If I cancel the dialog, click in the xterm, then I can type normally. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): virt-manager-0.8.0-7.fc12.noarch fvwm-2.5.26-4.fc12.x86_64 How reproducible: Every single time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. In xterm where I have ssh'ed to virtual host machine 2. virt-manager > /dev/null 2>&1 & 3. Hit return in xterm after virt-manager window appears. Actual results: Dadgum new VM dialog popup Expected results: Return key in xterm Additional info:
The only point virt-manager actively grabs keyboard focus is when interacting with a guest VNC console. Any other time, virt-manager is explicitly given keyboard focus by the window manager. So this just sounds like an fvwm bug, or fvwm mis-configuration to me.
I just made a brand new user with the default gnome and metacity environemnt, ran gconf-editor to set the metacity settings to follow mouse and disable the "smart" focus for new apps, and virt-manager still grabs the focus when I start it in this environment as well. No other apps I tried (gnome-terminal, system-config-printer, to pick a couple at random) grabbed the focus. Only virt-manager seems to suffer from this disease, so I don't think it is a fvwm problem since I have now eliminated fvwm from the equation.
Thanks for the info Tom, I was able to reproduce with the metacity gconf settings. Oddly enough, I just inadvertently fixed this a few days ago, with a cset that I thought was just a very minor cleanup: http://hg.fedorahosted.org/hg/virt-manager/rev/962e52a4b4c0 Apparently calling show() twice (or maybe present() after show()) was causing the improper focusing. Moving to POST.
virt-manager-0.8.2-3.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/virt-manager-0.8.2-3.fc12
virt-manager-0.8.3-2.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/virt-manager-0.8.3-2.fc13
virt-manager-0.8.3-2.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update virt-manager'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/virt-manager-0.8.3-2.fc13
virt-manager-0.8.2-3.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update virt-manager'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/virt-manager-0.8.2-3.fc12
virt-manager-0.8.2-3.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
virt-manager-0.8.3-2.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.