Evince does not react on key events from xdotool

[Benjamin Drung]

I want to control Evince with xdotool, but Evince does not react on any key event sent by xdotool. Open a PDF file with evince and try following commands:

WINID=$(xdotool search --classname evince | head -n 1)
xdotool key --clearmodifiers --window $WINID F5

I expect that Evince goes into full screen mode, but nothing happens. 'xdotool windowactivate $WINID' activates the correct window. I tried to send different keys with xdotool to the Evince window, but nothing happened.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: xdotool 1:2.20110530.1-3ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.39-generic 3.2.16
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: openafs
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jun 11 00:25:59 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120421)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xdotool
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

The same applied for gedit and eog. For example, open a picture with eog (in a directory with more than one picture) and run

for win in $(xdotool search --classname eog); do echo $win; xdotool key --clearmodifiers --window $win Page_Down; done

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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