Bug 160329

Summary:	Stops responding to keyboard
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	cnlion <kylion>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED REMIND
Severity:	normal	CC:	robertknight
Priority:	NOR
Version:	2.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description cnlion 2008-04-03 16:59:53 UTC

Version:           2.0 (using 4.0.3 (KDE 4.0.3), compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.23.12-52.fc7

I start some kde4 application, such as ksysguard, by typing in konsole,
$ksysguard
Then I close ksysguard and return to konsole.
$
Now I find that konsole stops responding to keyboard.
The problem can solved just by changing the current window to another program, or opening another tab.
If I open another tab by double clicking the bottom bar, then both tabs of the konsole respond. But after I close the new tab, the konsole stops responding again.
This problem occurs repeatedly here.
I'm in Fedora 7 and LANG="zh_CN.UTF-8".
I compile the kde4.0.3 by myself.
I found the same problem in kde4.0.2 release.

Comment 1 Robert Knight 2008-04-03 17:18:19 UTC

> Now I find that konsole stops responding to keyboard. 

Does sending Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+C or Ctrl+D do anything?

Can you run Konsole from another terminal (eg. xterm) and see if any warnings or error messages are displayed.

Comment 2 cnlion 2008-04-04 16:16:40 UTC

I try a little more and find that it may not be a bug of konsole, but
a bug of kde4 system?
Because I run xterm or urxvt (rxvt-unicode), run kde4 program with the
same way, then the same problem occurs, just as konsole.
None of Ctrl+Z, Ctrl_C or Ctrl+D helps.
But there is some difference between them.
For xterm, after I run ksysguard then close ksysguard, xterm stops to
respond the keyboard. But When I move the xterm window a little, xterm
works well again.
For urxvt,  moving the urxvt window does not help. But exchanging the
current window helps.
For konsole, moving the konsole window  does not help either.
Unfortunately I compile and build the kde4.0.3 with the option
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
I do not see any error message output, when I run Konsole from xterm.
Maybe there are something wrong in kde4 for switching the keyboard to
another active window when the current window is closed?

Comment 3 cnlion 2008-04-04 16:19:40 UTC

It occurs that some kde4 programs stop to respond the keyboard at the
same time when I'm trying, such as the search bar on the menu of
plasma,  all konsole windows. But dolphin and konqueror respond. None
of the operations I have said helps. I close all the konsoles, then start a new one, it responds again.

Comment 4 Robert Knight 2008-06-02 08:18:56 UTC

> I try a little more and find that it may not be a bug of konsole, but
> a bug of kde4 system? 

It might be a KWin issue?  Does running a different window manager instead (eg. metacity) make any difference?

eg. With metacity installed, from a terminal run:

metacity --replace

Comment 5 Robert Knight 2008-09-22 04:30:21 UTC

I cannot reproduce here.  Closing until a reply to comment #4 is posted.