Keyboard focus does not switch on closing application

[Sid]

I just upgraded from Gutsy to Hardy Beta yesterday. And I have been seeing a weird behavior with the "keyboard focus".

Suppose I have two windows open, window1 and window2, and window2 currently has focus. Now, if I close window2, the focus switches to window1. But typing anything in window1 doesn't work at all. Even if I click inside window1, and then start typing, nothing happens. The only way I can switch "keyboard focus" to window1 is by clicking on the title bar of window1.

I tried this with firefox (window2) and gnome-terminal (window1). Then with firefox (window2) and eclipse (window1). And once with evolution (window2) and terminal (window1).

I also tried it with and without compiz. Same symptoms.

I have a Thinkpad T61 running Hardy Beta, upgraded from Gutsy. Let me know if I can provide any other information.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your comments. This does not appear to be a bug report as such. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise your question in the support tracker. http://launchpad.net/support

[Sid (sidd)]

Ah. Okay... I've tracked down the problem to synergy.

I use synergy quite a bit to share a keyboard and mouse between
multiple machines. So, it looks like this problem shows up if I start
the synergy client on my laptop. After that, even if I close the client,
the problem remains until I reboot.

Without synergy, it seems to be running okay.

On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 12:37 +0000, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Thanks for your comments. This does not appear to be a bug report as
> such. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make
> more sense to raise your question in the support tracker.
> http://launchpad.net/support
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu
> Sourcepackagename: gnome-desktop => None
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu
> Importance: Undecided => Medium
> Status: New => Invalid
>