Comment 7 for bug 334533

For me this bug is a serious problem, because you can't close some application running in a gnome-terminal savely without keyboard access. So this bug can cause data losses!
Clicking with the mouse an the applet does sometimes not work for me.
But I' ve found a way to get back the default keyboard behaviour. Simply lock the screen using the mouse and then unlock it again. There after the keyboard behaves normal.
I hope this can help some of you, but for handicapped people this doesn 't work either.