Bug 35042 – mouse pointer / focus misbehaves in MozillaFirebird under ratpoison window manager

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Artem Baguinski 2003-12-04 03:04:16 UTC]

i haven't figure yet how to recreate this problem but sometimes one (or several)
of the following problems occure in MozillaFirebird under ratpoison:

1. i can see the keyboard input cursor flashing in some field but as i type
nothing appears.
2. mouse gets trapped inside some subwindow, e.g. java applet
3. mouse pointer avoids certain areas on window and jumps to some other
posiotion as i try to move it there.


Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
i didn't get the pattern yet ;)



Portage 2.0.49-r13-2 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.1-r2, 2.4.20-acpi-r9)
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System uname: 2.4.20-acpi-r9 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.2.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config
/usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb:/usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs sandbox ccache userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod
mpeg ncurses pdflib png quicktime spell xml2 xmms zlib gdbm berkdb readline arts
bonobo svga tcltk java guile postgres sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python
esd imlib oggvorbis gtk motif opengl mozilla gphoto2 cdr X gtk2 gnome Xaw3d xv
-alsa -qt -kde dvd mbox -slang 3dnow acpi truetype tetex nls doc"

[Comment 1 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2003-12-07 06:09:06 UTC]

which ratpoint version?

[Comment 2 Artem Baguinski 2003-12-07 10:55:21 UTC]

1.3.0-beta3  among applications that freek out is xine-ui

[Comment 3 Jason Wever (RETIRED) 2003-12-18 11:10:01 UTC]

Are there any particular websites that set this off?

[Comment 4 Maurice van der Pot (RETIRED) 2003-12-23 14:26:35 UTC]

I'm not sure if this is the same problem, but I'm using MozillaFirebird with fluxbox and the problem occurs when:
1) I put the cursor in the address bar
2) I move the mouse over the page
3) I switch to another workspace
4) I switch back to the workspace with MozillaFirebird (and no other apps)
5) I try to type in the address bar

After having compiled MozillaFirebird about 10 times with different switches for configure, I noticed that the problem disappears if I don't use gtk2 as the default toolkit (--enable-default-toolkit=gtk2).

Try emerging firebird like this:
USE="-gtk2" emerge mozilla-firebird

Please let me know if that fixes the problem.

If it does, I would like to get some help from someone more experienced with gtk2 to find out if the problem is in gtk2 itself.

[Comment 5 Jason Wever (RETIRED) 2003-12-25 16:45:39 UTC]

Griffon26,

I'd suggest trying a different bug for this.  fluxbox and mozilla have a fun history, and this probably more due to a focus issue (or has been in my experience) than anything.  You might try using alt+tab to see if this makes fluxbox play nicer with mozilla (this applies to firebird as well).

[Comment 6 Artem Baguinski 2004-01-23 10:56:48 UTC]

suddenly i don't have no problems anymore.

[Comment 7 Brandon Hale (RETIRED) 2004-01-24 07:31:31 UTC]

Reporter can no longer reproduce, closing.