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Phill Whiteside (phillw) wrote : Re: [Bug 1307648] Re: chromium 34 from proposed does not take input from keyboard in first entry point on several webpages

Version 35.0.1916.114 Ubuntu 14.04 (270117) works fine,

I have asked as to when it will land.... In the meantime you can enable a
temporary ppa with it on.... (you want the Beta PPA).
http://www.webupd8.org/2014/02/how-to-install-chromium-beta-or-dev.html

Regards,

Phill.

On 22 May 2014 18:33, NoOp <email address hidden> wrote:

> The problem is not just in the proposed version, it is in the final
> release version as well:
>
> $ apt-cache policy chromium-browser
> chromium-browser:
> Installed: 34.0.1847.116-0ubuntu2
> Candidate: 34.0.1847.116-0ubuntu2
> Version table:
> *** 34.0.1847.116-0ubuntu2 0
> 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe i386
> Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> $ echo $GDMSESSION
> gnome-fallback
> $ cat /etc/lsb-release
> DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
> DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04
> DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty
> DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04 LTS"
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1307648
>
> Title:
> chromium 34 from proposed does not take input from keyboard in first
> entry point on several webpages
>
> Status in "chromium-browser" package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> To reproduce install chromium 34 from proposed with pepperflash. And
> find a site that you input some text into like indeed.com or some
> others. Then you hit the keys on the keyboard but no text is seen
> onscreen.
>
> I expected the text to be entering into chroumium like it is on any
> other browser. And for the text to be entered into the browser and
> transfered ot the webpage I am submitting it to.
>
> Instead it did not show up and indeed.com thought I did not enter
> anything even though I pressed several keys on my keyboard.
> Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
> Release: 14.04
> chromium-browser:
> Installed: 34.0.1847.116-0ubuntu1~pkg1006
> Candidate: 34.0.1847.116-0ubuntu1~pkg1006
> Version table:
> *** 34.0.1847.116-0ubuntu1~pkg1006 0
> 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/trusty-proposed/universe amd64 Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 33.0.1750.152-0ubuntu1~pkg995.1 0
> 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64
> Packages
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
> Package: chromium-browser 34.0.1847.116-0ubuntu1~pkg1006
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
> Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: wl
> ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu2
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: LXDE
> Date: Mon Apr 14 11:15:07 2014
> Desktop-Session:
> DESKTOP_SESSION = Lubuntu
> XDG_CONFIG_DIRS =
> /etc/xdg/lubuntu:/etc/xdg/xdg-Lubuntu:/usr/share/upstart/xdg:/etc/xdg
> XDG_DATA_DIRS =
> /etc/xdg/lubuntu:/usr/local/share:/usr/share:/usr/share/gdm:/var/lib/menu-xdg:/usr/share/Lubuntu:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
> DetectedPlugins:
>
> DiskUsage:
> b'Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on\n/dev/sdc4
> ext4 641G 61G 549G 10% /\nnone tmpfs 4.0K 0
> 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup\nudev devtmpfs 1.9G 4.0K 1.9G 1%
> /dev\ntmpfs tmpfs 386M 1.3M 385M 1% /run\nnone
> tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock\nnone tmpfs 1.9G
> 17M 1.9G 1% /run/shm\nnone tmpfs 100M 16K 100M 1%
> /run/user\n'
>
> Inodes:
> b'Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on\n/dev/sdc4
> 41M 565K 41M 2% /\nnone 483K 2 483K 1%
> /sys/fs/cgroup\nudev 480K 612 479K 1% /dev\ntmpfs
> 483K 643 482K 1% /run\nnone 483K 5 483K 1%
> /run/lock\nnone 483K 19 483K 1% /run/shm\nnone
> 483K 13 483K 1% /run/user\n'
> Env:
> MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-02 (102 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 14.04 "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140101)
> SourcePackage: chromium-browser
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
> gconf-keys: /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec =
> b'firefox\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command = b'sensible-browser
> %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/enabled =
> b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command = b'sensible-browser
> %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/enabled =
> b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager =
> b''/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager =
> b''/desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme =
> b'gnome\n'/desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme = b'Clearlooks\n'
> modified.conffile..etc.default.chromium.browser: [deleted]
> mtime.conffile..etc.chromium.browser.default: 2014-04-14T10:56:12.681598
>
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