Bug 74891

Summary:	Taskbar clicks don't register
Product:	[Unmaintained] kicker	Reporter:	Edward Muller <edwardam>
Component:	taskbarapplet	Assignee:	John Firebaugh <jfirebaugh>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	RedHat Enterprise Linux
OS:	Linux
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Description Edward Muller 2004-02-11 00:06:06 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.0)
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs
OS:          Linux

OS: Fedora FC1 using RPMS from kde.org

Note: I'm not sure is this is a taskbar problem or a windows manager problem (kwin).

Clicking on an item in the taskbar list should, if it's not a program group, max/min the application. It doesn't always work and I need to sometimes click several times.

Same thing happens when sometimes when I right click on a taskbar item and then left click on the menu item (like Close). it doesn't work and sometimes get's 'stuck' .. I need to hit escape a few times to clear away the menu before I can go back and right click again.

Let me know if any more info is needed.

Comment 1 Edward Muller 2004-02-11 01:06:48 UTC

It looks like when the right click menu gets 'stuck' I can still use the keyboard arrows to go up down and enter to select the window I want. Very annoying thought.

Comment 2 Edward Muller 2004-02-11 20:48:20 UTC

Even more annoying problem that may be related has come up.

Alt-TAB get's stuck and the keyboard doesn't work, nor can I click on anything that the icons in the alt-tab window, which doesn't activate the window.

I end up having to ssh into my machine from another box and kill kwin.

This gives me control of my keyboard back. From there I can Ctrl+Alt+F1 and restart kwin. This works until it locks up again while Alt+Tabbing.

Comment 3 Stephan Baum 2004-02-11 21:13:37 UTC

I'm having the same problem over here on two different Fedora Core 1 installations. This ist VERY annoying and I'm thinking about downgrading to KDE 3.1.x...

Comment 4 Stephan Baum 2004-02-12 13:12:17 UTC

Maybe this is a QT-related problem?
I just have found this discussion thread:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=1c6abd304319eac2

Comment 5 Klaus Brüssel 2004-02-13 21:31:55 UTC

I have similar problems, I work with qt 3.3 / kde 3.2 compiled via konstruct. Is this like http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68508

Comment 6 Edward Muller 2004-02-13 21:37:06 UTC

I don't know. I've applied a patch to qt from Mandrake RPMS and it's fixed (so far anyway) the Alt+Tab lockups. The amount of times that mouse clicks get lost is less now, but it still happens. So there may be a bug in Qt and in KDE. But it's also possible that the patch I used (found in the Mandrake Qt 3.2.3 RPMS as Patch40) is not complete.

Comment 7 Edward Muller 2004-02-14 01:52:09 UTC

Well forget what I said about Alt-Tab being fixed. It just happened again. :-(

Comment 8 John Firebaugh 2004-02-22 02:13:07 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 68508 ***