Re: Who is stealing my events?

On 01.06.2012 14:01, Daniele Varrazzo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using awesome together with gnome session, with guilty pleasure and without 
> big problems. However from time to time something happens and x stops receiving 
> mouse events. xev confirms that. Restarting awesome doesn't help: I have to 
> restart the entire session, usually losing a big amount of state and karma 
> points.
[...]
> Has anybody else experienced the same problem? Is there any way to see what is 
> the program stealing the events?
[...]

No one ever really figured out anything definite. However, general consensus
seems to be "It's a bug in GTK", "some GTK app is grabbing the keyboard", "seems
to be fixed in newer GTK versions".

So since you are already killing stuff: Try killing random GTK apps. That should
produce more helpful results for which app is grabbing input.

Oh and only way to cause this that I heard about was "Click and drag the resize
grip that GTK draws in the lower-right corner of its windows".

Uli
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