Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 75740
gnome-terminal eventually will not accept keyboard input
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:04 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: After some time gnome-terminal will not accept keybard input. Mouse input will work. I can bring the menu up and spawn a new terminal (or a new tab). I can move the scroll bar. I can even paste commands into the terminal. It seems that terminal will not gain focus for some reason. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start sveral gnome-terminals in different workspaces. 2.Use the terminals and other applications. 3.Check your terminals for keyboard input. Sorry, I am unable to have a better steps to reproduce. I just get about 4-6 terminals unusable during a work day. Additional info:
I will often have serveral terminals open concurrently. I have found several times when I do "tail -f /var/log/messages" that ^C will not close the "tail" process. I suspect that this is related or the same bug.
I think this has to do with vte, the experimental terminal widget the are using on the gnome-terminal. I compiled the gnome-terminal with zvt, which is the one originaly used by gnome and I've had no more problems like that, just that the fonts look discunting. By the way with zvt I cann use the X fonts (all of them!). One thing zvt doesn't solved is the poor performance. (#time ls -la /usr/lib -- + 2sec !! vs. + 0.5 sec on the xterm :( )
I know this should go to another bug Id but it's related so .. I also have the same problem on the xterm. After cutting and pasting (mid mouse) and going back with the cursor a few times and maybe going back in the history (bash) it (xterm) starts to append text ramdomgly until it dies. Maybe this has more to do with X than with the terminal. By the way with zvt doesn't work either :( Sorry about that.
What text is it appending? Is it stuffing "bbbb" endlessly? Do you use ALT-X hotkeys to switch virtual desktops? I'm wondering if this this is related to bug 74760 or bug 74759.
I haven't seen this and haven't seen other reports. If you are still seeing it with multiple apps, perhaps reassign this bug to XFree86 and include complete information on your hardware.