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Bug 130240 - Can't click to focus applets in sloppy focus mode
Can't click to focus applets in sloppy focus mode
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 115072
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.6.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-12-30 19:56 UTC by Peter Whysall
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.3/2.4


Description Peter Whysall 2003-12-30 19:56:40 UTC 
Environment: SuSE packages for GNOME 2.4, Metacity version 2.6.2

To replicate this bug:

- Change Metacity's focus model to Sloppy.
- Add an applet such as the command line to a panel
- Note that you cannot type into the command line's text area by pointing at it
- Also note that you can however paste text into the text area by clicking
the middle mouse button
Comment 1 Telsa Gwynne 2003-12-30 20:02:40 UTC 
I have metacity-2.4 from Fedora Core. Same here. Also confirmed
on #gnome by people running some Debian version and Gentoo.

Interestingly, you can use the standard keyboard bindings in Gnome
to give the input area focus: I did control-alt-tab and suddenly I
could type into it. 

Also occurs in gdict, so I don't think it's a command line applet
problem alone.

We talked about this on IRC and someone was going to report it
yesterday, so there may be a duplicate: but I don't know whether
they did.
Comment 2 Havoc Pennington 2003-12-30 22:51:32 UTC 
I think it's very deliberate in the code that panels are click to
focus even in mouse focus modes, though I don't remember why that was
done. Perhaps my idea was to make sloppy focus more sloppy, since you
rarely want to focus a panel. Sounds reasonable to me.

Maybe in strict mouse focus mode you should be able to mouse focus
panels, and in sloppy focus have to click.

Anyway, no complaints about this in the last 3 years that I remember,
so changing it seems a bit dangerous.
Comment 3 Telsa Gwynne 2003-12-31 09:04:44 UTC 
Havoc, you can't focus the little box to type in your command
(in command line applet) or your word to look up (in gdict)
at _all_. You click, and you type, and your word shows up 
not in the applet, but in the last window you opened instead.
You can't click to focus on the applet itself. Unless you know
the keyboard bindings (and I had to look this one up!) or are
silly enough to try pasting a selection into the applet, it's 
not possible to use the applet. 

There was a very long bug about a recent change made to 
fix a different bug which had a lot of discussion in it. Trying
to find it now. I wonder whether that change resulted in
this bug too.
Comment 4 Charles Duffy 2003-12-31 15:41:08 UTC 
This also happens (including the ability to click-to-focus on the
panel) on my Debian/unstable system running Metacity 2.6.3 and
gnome-panel 2.4.1.
Comment 5 Rob Adams 2003-12-31 17:41:05 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 115072 ***