Weird desktop wide application focusing/cursor problem

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 08:50:42 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:

> > >>>> Since I fully resynced with yesterdays rawhide I now regulary lose the 
> > >>>> cursor/ability to type in *any* application on the desktop.
> > >>> Confirmed. Nothing more, nothing less. ;)
> 
> I updated my FC5t2 boot partition yesterday, and about half way through
> the process, this exact same thing happened. After rebooting (to make
> sure new kernel worked), I didn't see it again, so it was either
> an artifact of something changing out from under me during the
> update, or I just haven't used it enough to see it happen again.

When it happens to me -- and remember, it's key input which is not working
in a window then, the mouse pointer is working fine all the time (!) -- I
minimise/maximise the window, which usually fixes it.