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Can't regain search field focus when another another window gets focus
Status:
RESOLVED: FIXED
Product:
Xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin
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General

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Description Ben Burrill 2018-02-12 01:40:28 CET
whiskermenu: 1.7.5
xfce/xfwm: 4.12

To reproduce:
- Open a terminal window
- Run sleep 5; wmctrl -a Terminal
- Within those 5 seconds, open whisker menu
- When the terminal window gets focus, click on the search field in the still-open whisker menu.  The whisker menu does not regain focus from the terminal.  When you type, it goes to the terminal instead of the whisker menu.  You can still interact with the whisker menu in other ways, clicking through menus, etc, but you can't regain keyboard focus from the terminal.

I often encounter this problem when trying to launch multiple things at once from the whisker menu.  When entering long search actions, it can be a major frustration because you lose everything you were typing and need to start over.
Comment 1 Git Bot editbugs 2018-04-07 11:36:39 CEST
Graeme Gott referenced this bugreport in commit 7f4470b3d01eeff7e1db26c33a1ae98798422c62

Fix losing search focus. (bug #14209)

https://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin/commit?id=7f4470b3d01eeff7e1db26c33a1ae98798422c62
Comment 2 Graeme Gott editbugs 2018-04-07 11:38:04 CEST
Fixed in 7f4470b.

Bug #14209

Reported by:
Ben Burrill
Reported on: 2018-02-12
Last modified on: 2018-04-07

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Assignee:
Graeme Gott
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