Comment 29 for bug 66104

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Ming Hua (minghua) wrote : Re: [Bug 66104] Re: scim: input freezes in various applications under XIM mode, additional information

On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 04:41:23PM -0000, Christoph Bloch wrote:
> I can reproduce the error by opening a bash terminal and hitting
> ctrl+shift+t many times without pausing. When I do this, not _all_
> keyboard input is blocked:
> * ctrl-shift-t and ctrl-shift-w work (open and close tabs)
> * I can copy text with ctrl-shift-c
> * alt-F4 works, to close the window

Doesn't surprise me. It's likely gnome-terminal or metacity intercepted
that key event, and it never got into the text input area, so scim
doesn't have a chance to mess things up.

> It's not always exactly the same, but there seems to be something wrong
> with the assigning of input to a certain window if one does not wait for
> the window to completely build before one types. With Thunderbird, it's
> much worse because the same thing happens and there, the windows take
> more time to load.
>
> I don't know it that's the same bug as the one above, but it seems to
> me.

It looks the same bug to me. If you read the Fedora bug you'll see the
bug is related to focus change.

Ming
2007.10.21