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Re: Window/widget focus (clipping?) problems



Oddly enough, a reboot fixed this.
I must have changed something without noticing. :)

> My desktop starts OK, but after a few clicks, "mouse focus" completely
> sticks to some window or widget.
>
> For example, a vertical tree widget may grab the focus and even if I click
> somewhere outside it, one of the items still get selected -- as if the
> window was infinitely wide, despite the visually correct clipping.
>
> If the selected window allows transferring focus to some other window by
> keyboard (e.g. tab, shift-tab, alt-tab), this "mouse focus" (or click point
> clipping or whatever it is) is also transferred.
>
> After a while, the desktop usually becomes completely uninteractive,
> probably because the focus has moved to some entity that doesn't handle
> keyboard nor mouse events at all. Restarting Kwin through a remote shell
> helps for a while, as it moves the focus to some of its' managed windows on
> startup.
>
> Something must have been broken withing the last 2 weeks or so as that's
> when I last restarted the system (before yesterday evening, that is).
>
> - Jarno



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