pointer capture applet messes with keyboard shortcuts

[Nanley Chery]

Binary package hint: gnome-applets

Intrepid Beta
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gnome-applets:
  Installed: 2.24.0.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.24.0.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.24.0.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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The pointer capture applet causes apps and tasks that rely on keyboard shortcuts to stop working properly.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Click on pointer capture applet
2. Press alt+f1 to access the gnome menu && keyboard stops working here

1. Click on pointer capture applet
2. Press super+space to access gnome-do
3. Gnome-do starts very slowly and doesn't accept keyboard input

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, what is this applet exactly? could you make a screenshot showing it? it doesn't seem to be one of the gnome-applets set

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

not sure what software that is but that's not a gnome-applets applet and not in the standard ubuntu installation

[Nanley Chery (nanoman)]

It's in the standard installation. If you right click your panel and select "Add to Panel," you're taken to the selection box I have in the screenshot above. Double-click on "Pointer Capture," and you'll have added the green box on your panel. I put it under gnome-applets because it is a tool that can only be run on the gnome-panel and nowhere else - that's the definition of an applet [at least the one found in Help (yelp)].

[Anthony Noto (angusthefuzz)]

The binary package that contains this applet is called mousetweaks and I can confirm the bug on Intrepid 8.10.