Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 17:29:24 -0400 From: Mike Patterson <mpatters@cs.uwaterloo.ca> To: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Firebird 0.7 and the keyboard; c&p to FB from Evolution Message-ID: <1066858164.38350.84.camel@comrie> In-Reply-To: <20031022201618.GP96543@toxic.magnesium.net> References: <1066851845.38350.67.camel@comrie> <20031022201618.GP96543@toxic.magnesium.net>
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On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 16:16, Adam Weinberger wrote: > >> (10.22.2003 @ 1544 PST): Mike Patterson said, in 1.7K: << > > I've noticed lately, particularly since upgrading to Firebird 0.7 (but I > > believe this may have happened a few times with 0.6.1) that occasionally > > Firebird will appear to stop listening to any keyboard input - ie, if > > the cursor is in a text entry box, nothing I type has any effect, ^T > > does not open a new tab and ^W does not close one, etc. To get keyboard > > back in FB, I need to close it and re-open it. > >> end of "Firebird 0.7 and the keyboard; c&p to FB from Evolution" from Mike Patterson << > > I get the same thing in mozilla. Simply focus another window and then > refocus firebird... that should get your keyboard input focus back. Interesting - I'd tried that already, but not with another window in the same workspace (I use WindowMaker). Opening up an xterm in the same workspace as FB, then giving it focus and typing some stuff, then moving back to FB, worked ok; nothing else seems to. Oh well, thanks! This is perhaps a WM problem, rather than something strictly FB. Mike -- She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way a midget is good at being short. - Clive James, on Marilyn Monroe
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