Multiple concurrent chats cause input text area to lose focus

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#507 · opened 2013-01-02 by StephenCasella · updated 2013-01-07 · 5 comments · github

SStephenCasella 2013-01-02 github

When in 2 or more concurrent chats, having unread text in an inactive tab causes the current text field to lose focus (even while typing) once the new text notification goes back down. Focus is typically granted to a separate window (such as that of an internet browser or whatever else happens to be up). I am running Ubuntu 12.04 with the Unity interface.

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Vendor: GenuineIntel
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12 logical processors
11 physical processors
HyperThreading: Supported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
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SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported

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Operating System Version:
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.2.0-35-generic
X Server vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server release: 11103000

Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GT 420/PCIe/SSE2

Driver Version:  4.3.0 NVIDIA 310.14
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
VendorID:  0x10de
DeviceID:  0xde2
Number of Monitors:  2
Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
Primary Display Resolution:  1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 3840 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 20.04" x 11.26"  (22.95" diag)
                                        50.9cm x 28.6cm  (58.3cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 2047 MB
Supported MSAA Modes:  2x 4x 8x 16x

Sound card:
Audio device: Realtek ALC888

Memory:
RAM: 16041 Mb

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MMrSchism 2013-01-02 github

Please include the information included on https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux for a more complete system profile.

SStephenCasella 2013-01-02 github

Updated. Sorry for the ambiguity and thanks for the time.

MMrSchism 2013-01-02 github

Not a problem, Stephen.

Odd question: what is your window manager's "mouse focus on..." setting set to?

SStephenCasella 2013-01-03 github

I'm not quite sure if this is the information you're after, but my window manager's focus mode is set to 'click':

gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences focus-mode
'click'

I don't see any other window manager properties related to that setting.

I ran into this issue several times two days ago (before my ISP dropped service, hence the latency in my response), and it seems that every time the slide up/down notification of the unread chat messages disappeared, the chat window lost focus. The text input itself seemed to lose focus as well on regular intervals after that if the unread tab was left blinking even if no new messages appeared (switching back and forth between tabs when new messages arrived prevented this), but I haven't experienced either enough to know if they are related or not.

Sscottlu 2013-01-07 github

The notification focus stealing problem is fixed in next release (happening this week).

Nothing extracted yet.