[fedora-virt] Xorg input focus problem with virt-manager guest VNC window

[Cole Robinson]

On 07/25/2012 11:56 AM, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> I just did a yum update and reboot on Fedora 16, and since then I've
> been having input focus issues (outside of guests).  Whenever I move
> the mouse over a virt-manager guest console window (VNC), I can't
> right click title bars of windows that are stacked on top of the
> virt-manager guest.  Additionally, often the input focus gets stuck
> such that even after moving the mouse to other areas of the desktop
> and other windows, I can't type into them at all, nor click anything.
> Cutting and pasting with the left/middle mouse buttons in
> gnome-terminal still seems to work, though.  The text cursor in
> gnome-terminal windows blinks very quickly and erratically while stuck
> in this state.
> 
> When this happens, I have to mouse back into the virt-manager guest
> VNC console and back out again, which usually clears the issue.
> 
> I realize this might not be caused by virt-manager itself, but I
> thought I'd start here in case others have seen this issue, and also
> to learn what virt-manager/VNC might be doing differently to the X
> server to trigger this issue vs. other X clients.  Many packages were
> updated, including:
> 
> NVIDIA binary driver (unfortunately required to use the 4 displayport
> outputs on the nVidia Quadro NVS 420 card I have)
> 
> 1:akmod-nvidia-295.59-1.fc16.x86_64
> 1:kmod-nvidia-295.59-1.fc16.4.x86_64
> 1:kmod-nvidia-3.3.1-3.fc16.x86_64-295.40-2.fc16.x86_64
> 1:kmod-nvidia-3.4.5-1.fc16.x86_64-295.59-1.fc16.4.x86_64
> 1:xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-295.59-1.fc16.x86_64
> 1:xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-295.59-1.fc16.x86_64
> 
> Kernel:
> 
> kernel-3.4.5-1.fc16.x86_64
> kernel-devel-3.4.5-1.fc16.x86_64
> kernel-headers-3.4.5-1.fc16.x86_64
> 
> Virt-related:
> 
> libvirt-0.9.6.1-1.fc16.x86_64
> libvirt-client-0.9.6.1-1.fc16.x86_64
> libvirt-python-0.9.6.1-1.fc16.x86_64
> python-virtinst-0.600.2-1.fc16.noarch
> virt-manager-0.9.3-1.fc16.noarch
> virt-manager-common-0.9.3-1.fc16.noarch

Probably this:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=840240

You'll only hit it if you have virt-preview or updates-testing enabled. I'll
get a new build going.

- Cole