Weird desktop wide application focusing/cursor problem

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:46:55 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:

> > >>>On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:46:08 +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>>Since I fully resynced with yesterdays rawhide I now regulary lose the 
> > >>>>cursor/ability to type in *any* application on the desktop.
> > >
> > >It may depend on a display driver used.
> > 
> > Why would the display driver have anything to do with this?
> 
> Things which are drawn on your graphic display have something, as
> it happens, to do with your display driver and its configuration.
> Such driver handles also such details as acceleration, cursors -
> hardware or software, offscreen video memory, etc...
> BTW - did you try to see what will happen if you will turn
> SWcursor option on?  By default is off.

I highly doubt that the display driver is related at all. Key-press events
are not recognised at all for the erratically focused window, but for
other components of the desktop environment.


Btw, I have not updated my driver for a long time, since the mga
driver in FC6 Test is suffering from a very bad DoS.

$ grep exc /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-development.repo 
exclude=xorg-x11-drv-mga

There's an open ticket about that which is sort of like /dev/null.