Bug 305261

Summary:	Keyboard stops responding after clicking a GTK Combo box
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	Ted Drake <kde>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.8
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Ted Drake 2012-08-16 13:53:34 UTC

In Fedora 17 running KDE 4.8.4 I have a somewhat annoying problem where keypresses stop working in any GTK2 based applications after clicking on a combo box.  This behavior is consistent on about 40+ workstations that we are using and is resulting in a lot of complaints from our users.

One application that reproduces this behavior 100% of the time is gigolo.  If you click the "Connect" button, then change the service type field to anything and try typing in one of the input boxes the keyboard will no longer register events.  Right clicking twice in one of text entry field appears to free up whatever is locking out the keyboard.

The behavior is the same regardless of if composting is enabled or not.

Comment 1 Jekyll Wu 2012-08-16 15:56:36 UTC

Are you using oxygen-gtk ? I fail to reproduce the problem using that gigolo example.

Comment 2 Ted Drake 2012-08-17 13:33:24 UTC

Upon closer analysis, there are a handful of machines here that don't exibit the behavior.  Which is suprising since they are all built off of the same kickstart image.  I'm not really sure what is different as they are all Dell Optiplex 990s with nvidia video cards running the same proprietary drivers and synchronized with a local yum repository.  The behavior is seen regardless of if the computer is a multi-monitor or single monitor setup.  Just as a test, I updated one machine to KDE 4.8.5 and the behavior did not change.  Do you have any suggestions that might help me debug it?

Comment 3 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-09 01:08:16 UTC

Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? I am setting the status to NEEDSINFO pending your response, please change the Status back to REPORTED when you respond.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!

Comment 4 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-20 04:00:30 UTC

Dear Bug Submitter,

This is a reminder that this bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? This bug will be moved back to REPORTED Status for manual review later, which may take a while. If you are able to, please lend us a hand.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2020-09-28 22:39:27 UTC

No response; assuming it was fixed since then. FWIW it works for me, and the way GTK apps are handled has undergone a lot of changes since this bug report was filed.