From kde-core-devel  Fri Nov 21 21:56:18 2003
From: Max <maxb () xandros ! com>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 21:56:18 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: KDesktop Focus Issues
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=106952922825056

Hi,

I'm having some issues with kdesktop doing some focus issues, and am 
looking to perhaps fix it.

This is my speculation:

The problem seems to stem from the screensaver engine, installing an x11 
event filter.

Occasionally, kdesktop loses focus without it being aware that it has 
done so (I'll explain one way below), and continues processing keyboard 
events that it's not actually getting.  I think.

This is how I can get the issue to sometimes happen on my system:
Enable a screensaver.
Open konsole, so that it's not a full window.
Right click on a desktop icon, bringing up the popup menu.
While this is up, left-click on konsole, giving it focus.

Now, sometimes (most of th etime?) konsole now gets focus, but the icon 
on the desktop is still highlighted (it normally loses it's highlight 
when it loses focus).

Now, I can up and down arrow my bash history, and the highlight on the 
desktop icons moves too.  If I then press enter, my shell executes a 
command *and* kdesktop launches an application.

If a screensaver is not enabled, this does not appear to happen 
(although, it's still not aware it's loss focus, it doesn't get the 
keyboard events anyways).

Now, I'm not entirely sure how to work around this, or why exactly this 
occurs when the x11 event filter is enabled., or if this is even *why* 
it happens.

(nb: I am using the xandros customized version of kdesktop, however, I 
don't believe any changes we've made affects this).

Any ideas?
Max
(please CC: me, I'm not on the list.)