Abiword opens multiple windows when spacebar is pressed, until a new file is opened

[Jack Fromm]

To reproduce:
Launch AbiWord and just start typing text. Nothing appears until you hit the
spacebar and then another AbiWord window opens. This will continue indefinitely
every time you hit space.
If you do a File->New before you start typing, everything works as expected.
And that seems to prevent the problem from reoccurring on subsequent launches.

Xubuntu 14.10, 15.04 (development)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: abiword 3.0.0-5ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-24.32-generic 3.16.4
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sat Nov 22 09:10:49 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-11-05 (16 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Alpha amd64 (20141105)
SourcePackage: abiword
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu Package testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://packages.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1395323

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Elfy (elfy)]

Can confirm

removing ~/.config/abiword then causes the issue to reappear

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1395323

[Thaddaeus Tintenfisch (thad-fisch-deactivatedaccount)]

I cannot reproduce this bug (15.04, up-to-date).

[Elfy (elfy)]

I can still confirm this in an up to date 15.04

If previously you have used Abiword then you need to remove the .config/abiword folder to reproduce.

[Jack Fromm (jjfrv8)]

Further experimentation yielded another clue. It seems to depend on the position of the mouse pointer. If AbiWord launches in an unmaximized window and the mouse pointer is located outside of that window, the bug behavior happens. If you reposition the mouse pointer, either before opening AbiWord or afterwards, so that the pointer is located in the body of the new document, typing behavior is normal.

[Dave Kokandy (drkokandy)]

Also creates a new document on hitting Enter.

[Dave Kokandy (drkokandy)]

This bug has been fixed in the latest release of Abiword - http://www.abisource.com/release-notes/3.0.1.phtml - which is still in debian experimental.

[Jack Fromm (jjfrv8)]

3.0.1 made it to the Xubuntu staging PPA. Updated today and tested okay.

[Sean Davis (bluesabre)]

Marking as Fixed, 3.0.1-1 is now in Vivid.