Ubuntu
xorg-server package

Xmir apps lose keyboard focus

Bug #1497837 reported by Daniel van Vugt
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Mir
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xorg-server (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Xmir apps lose keyboard focus, quite often.

Test cases:
gedit: Open a menu and then close it. Can't type in the editor any more.
chromium-browser: Just use it for a few seconds and you can't type in the address bar any more.

The problem appears to be a Mir one (mir demo servers) as the last event Xmir is receiving is:
  mir_surface_unfocused
shown in the log as:
  Focus: unfocused

So of course no window will receive keyboard input after that.

Workaround:
Alt+Tab or Alt+` a few times to regain focus.

Tags: xmir
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Even after regaining focus, Xmir still sometimes does not process key events properly. Feels like maybe modifiers get virtually stuck down maybe.

Changed in xorg-server (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in mir:
importance: High → Medium
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Hmm, maybe the Mir side of this bug is only mir_proving_server.

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

I can see much of the problem in Chromium is tooltips, which like menus steal focus in Mir but then don't return it when they close. So I think this is just a matter of mir_proving_server not being wired up to the new WM logic yet.

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