GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 120508
modal focus woes
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
If you press the middle mouse button for the "mouse-gesture" scrolling feature and a modal dialog pops up (modal for that browsing window), you're stuck and can't do anything - you can't change windows (even to another application), select menus etc. The only thing you can do, is use the keyboard to close the dialog box (fortunately). However, I didn't know this at first and since you basicly can do nothing else you're kind of stuck. Here's how to reproduce it. Type in some domain address that doesn't exist in the address bar. Immediately press the middle mouse button in the main area. If you are fast enough (or the domain address resolve process slow enough), you'll get a dialog window. Voila. I don't know if this is a bug in my window manager (icewm 1.2.1so 0), or in X (I think this happens with other applications in other scenarios as well). But since it is rather easy to reproduce I thought I'd report it... Oskar Liljeblad (oskar@osk.mine.nu)
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 112293 ***