Bug#218509: openoffice.org: Impress causes locked screen (focus off?) in full-screen mode

[Chris Halls <halls@debian.org>]

tags 218509 + moreinfo
tags 218509 + unreproducible

#does not seem to be a general problem - downgrade
severity 218509 normal

thanks

On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 20:33, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote:
> When I run the openoffice impress application under KDE 3.1 in sid,
> the fullscreen slide show mode initially seems to work.  However, if
> the slide show rests long enough (e.g. 1 min) on one slide, it is no
> longer possible to affect the application using any input events
> (mouse, keyboard).  That is, one is stuck at that slide and can't go
> forward or backward in the presentation, and it is not possible to
> leave slide show mode.
> 
> The mouse pointer still follows mouse movements, so I assume that the
> X server has not crashed.  Rather, it is as if focus has been lost so
> that the application no longer receives any input events.  It *is*
> possible to ctrl+alt+F<n> to the console.
> 
> I'm not aware of any other aspect of my system which is not working
> with regard to input focus, and my KDE setup is pretty basic with no
> strange apps running in the background and potentially influencing
> input focus (although I do use the hotkeys package for supporting the
> multimedia buttons on my laptop).

I have never seen this happen before, even though I use KDE too.  Even
if I leave impress running for half an hour in full screen mode, I still
do not get this behaviour.

Does this happen every time you try to reproduce it, or just sometimes?

Does the problem happen with the version of OOo in unstable too?

Which KDE version do you have?

Do you have any screen saver enabled?

Does the problem still occur if you create a new user account and run
OOo under that?

Does the problem still occur if you try another window manager, such as
twm?

Thanks,
Chris