Keyboard focus with FC6

[Kam Leo]

On 4/1/07, Dave Close <dave at compata.com> wrote:
> I recently performed an upgrade from FC5 to FC6 using DVD, followed by a
> "yum update". My box runs KDE, not Gnome. After the upgrade with X and
> KDE running, most things seem to work about as they did before. However,
> each window seems to lose keyboard focus at random intervals. Sometimes
> between almost every keystroke, other times I can type a few paragraphs
> before the focus goes away.
>
> When the focus is lost, the effect is that keystrokes don't seem to do
> anything. It is as though the program running in that window has hung or
> died, and at first I thought that was what was going on. However, I've
> discovered that simply moving the mouse cursor out of the window and then
> back in is enough to restore full keyboard function. My configuration is
> set to "focus follows mouse" so moving the cursor changes which window
> has focus.
>
> There were a number of problems with the upgrade. (I mention them just
> in case they might have a bearing.) Updating with yum after the DVD
> upgrade was not pleasant. I was forced to remove about 100 packages
> before it would work, then add them back afterwards. It doesn't seem
> right that yum can catch a whole bunch of dependency problems that
> anaconda is happy to create. And strangely enough, the "yum update"
> did /not/ update yum itself, though it needed to be updated.
>
> After the update, I ran 'yum groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"'.
> That detected the need to install kdeaccessibility and im-chooser. After
> it did so, I restarted X but the focus problem remains.
> --
> Dave Close, Compata, Costa Mesa CA  "'Always' and 'never' are two
> dave at compata.com, +1 714 434 7359    words you should always remember
> dhclose at alumni.caltech.edu           never to use." --Wendell Johnson
>

Do you have beagle running?