Clusterssh (cssh) has serious focus problems in Kubuntu 9.10

[tdn]

Binary package hint: clusterssh

Clusterssh (cssh) is a handy application that allows me to administrate multiple machines via ssh in parallel. However, this application effectively stopped working in Kubuntu 9.10. It worked fine in Kubuntu 8.04 through 9.04.

1: start cssh to a set of machines.
2: change focus between main cssh window and the individual xterm-windows for some times.
3: suddenly you will notice, that the main cssh window will not give up focus. This makes each command or keystroke be sent to every server that has a connection open. This can leed to serious problems, because an unwanted command can be sent to a server. Possibly leading to downtime or data loss.

When this happens, it is often also impossible to move the main cssh window.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Nov 25 11:24:35 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: clusterssh 3.26-1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: clusterssh
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686

[Tyler Wagner (tyler)]

Extremely annoying and dangerous. I've experienced this since the upgrade to KDE4 with jaunty. I've had to stop using clusterssh as a result.

Setting special window/application settings to "Focus stealing: extreme" does not resolve this.

[Tyler Wagner (tyler)]

Not yet fixed in 4.00.01-1, backported from lucid to karmic. I haven't tested in lucid yet.

[Tony Mancill (tmancill)]

Just curious to know if this is still going on in Kubuntu. I've been
running clusterssh under 10.04 (but not running KDE4) without any
noticeable issues.

Thank you,
tony

On 05/04/2010 09:22 AM, Tyler Wagner wrote:
> Extremely annoying and dangerous. I've experienced this since the
> upgrade to KDE4 with jaunty. I've had to stop using clusterssh as a
> result.
>
> Setting special window/application settings to "Focus stealing: extreme"
> does not resolve this.
>