Version: (using KDE 4.2.2) OS: Linux Installed from: Mandriva RPMs In 4.2.2, kickoff menu doesn't get the keyboard focus anymore when opened. Very inconvenient if you use a keyboard shortcut to open it and search for some program, since now you need to click on the search field. It used to work fine in 4.2.1
I can confirm this on ubuntu 9.04 beta after upgrading to new kde 4.2.2 packages.
I also get this on openSUSE (with 4.2.2). I have compositing and effects turned on and kwin as window manager. Just a few minutes ago I was trying compiz 0.8.something, and it looks like this "kick off menu focus thing" works with compiz without any problems. I reverted back to kwin, and it again stopped working properly (I have to click somewhere inside the menu, to make it react to keyboard events).
Confirmed in current trunk (r947715)
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I can confirm this on Arch Linux after upgrading to KDE 4.2.2 (kdemod).
I can confirm this on openSuse 11.1
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Confirmed on Gentoo as well (after upgrade 4.2.1 -> 4.2.2). Using all-the-same Qt 4.4.3 patched with qt-copy patches.
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Confirm this bug in Kubuntu Jaunty 9.04, using KDE 4.2.2 packages (updated to this day).
I can also confirm this. I am using KDE 4.2.2. with Kubuntu Jaunty 9.04. It used to work before KDE 4.2.2. update. If I turn compiz on as a window manager, kickoff keyboard focus works fine but if I use kwin it doesn't.
It seems to definitely be related to Kwin. I replaced it with Openbox and Kicker gets proper focus, upon changing back to Kwin it breaks again. Would it be possible that the window specific behaviour configuration can be used to work around this temporarily?
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As suggested by Rex Dieter maybe this has something to do with bug #183002 If you "kquitapp kwin" Kickoff and KRunner will have serious problems...
(In reply to comment #15) > As suggested by Rex Dieter maybe this has something to do with bug #183002 > If you "kquitapp kwin" Kickoff and KRunner will have serious problems... It works fine in Openbox for me though. Only Kwin is having the problems. It is the same problem, only the roles reversed. I also tried to use the window specific behaviour thing for kicker without success. Disabling focus prevention for Kicker ("Plasma applet") did nothing.
My workaround is to use Lancelot instead which does the right thing in terms of focus.
Confirmed for Kubuntu 8.10 (intrepid) packages (from PPA kubuntu-experimental repository). Worked fine with 4.2.1 packages
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Confirmed for Kubuntu 9.04 Jaunty after update to 4.2.2 KDE version.
I think there are enough "I can confirm this". Please just CC yourself if you see this and only comment if you have a hint on what is causing this or a patch that can fix this. Thanks.
S. Burmeister, I don't know how kde bugs are triaged, but due to the made comments, a reminder/forward to somebody of the kwin team seems in order.
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There were four changes to KWin in 4.2.2 from 4.2.1: An XRandR 1.2 compositing fix, a desktop cube modification and two minor magic lamp patches. As none of these have anything remotely related to window focus it is not KWin that broke the menu between these two versions.
Ok, so if kwin cannot have caused this regression, which other components are involved? I'd start digging through the changelog to identify regression candidates, but my plasma knowledge is too limited to come up with a sensible list of components to limit the search to.
Confirmed here with kde-4.2.2/kwin, Ubuntu 8.10
http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=951367 for those who are looking.
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Here's a better fix for the issue http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kubuntu-members/kdelibs/ubuntu/revision/46
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This is fixed in the openSuse KDE Factory packeges now.
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I'm on Debian ustable/testing and I also have this bug on my KDE 4.2.2-2, but there is not an update available on Debian repositories to solve this. How can I fix this bug? (I'm new at Linux) Thanks
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