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Date:      Mon, 8 Dec 2014 20:05:48 -0800
From:      Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
To:        Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Cc:        "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [Call for testers] Update to xorg-server 1.14
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On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
wrote:

> On 2014-12-07, Jean-S=C3=A9bastien P=C3=A9dron <jean-sebastien.pedron@dum=
bbell.fr>
> wrote:
>
> >> * Serious: Sometimes the focus is stuck to the active window.
> >>   I use mwm with click-to-focus, and when this happens it becomes
> >>   impossible to change the focus.  I need to kill the X11 session.
> >
> > Do you use moused(8)?
>
> Yes.  (No configuration, devd starts it automatically.)
>
> > I refreshed the xserver-1.14 patch to add some debugging to the devd
> > backend, in case the problem comes from here:
> > https://people.freebsd.org/~dumbbell/graphics/ports-xserver-1.14.patch
> >
> > Could you please try with this patch and post your Xorg.0.log after the
> > problem occurred?
>
> Back from dinner, focus stuck again.  I'm typing this in the xterm
> that happens to have focus.
>
> Here we go.  There is nothing in Xorg.0.log.
>
> The EQ overflowing and devd ignoring device umass0 (I plugged in
> an SD card) happened earlier and are unrelated.
>
> [...]

> --
> Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de


Clearly not a solution, but most window managers allow you to select the
active window from the keyboard. On several it is <ALT><TAB>.


Have you tried "service moused restart"? (Must be run a root, of course.)
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com



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