Weird desktop wide application focusing/cursor problem

[Dennis Jacobfeuerborn]

Kevin DeKorte wrote:
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> Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
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>> As I found out while I can't input any text when this happens I can
>> still select text in the window. The selection is displayed with a gray
>> background though indicating that the windows doesn't have focus. So the
>> input driver seems to send proper click and drag events and they arrive
>> at their intended target but the click doesn't seem to result in
>> focusing the client area. It does focus the window though so the event
>> does seem to reach the WM but not the app.
>>
>> Regards,
>>   Dennis
>>
> 
> What kind of inputs are you using? PS/2 Keyboard and mouse or USB? I'm
> using USB devices on an i915 (using i810 driver) with up to date rawhide
> and have seen none of the problems you are seeing (gnome with compiz).
> Perhaps you got a bad upgrade, I had this with nautilus a couple of
> weeks ago. Maybe a 'yum clean all' and then a 'yum update' will fix your
> problems. Also, do you get these problems in other environments like
> XFCE or KDE?

PS/2 keyboard and USB mouse. I'm using metacity on my r300 card because 
compiz isn't really usable on that card and I only have Gnome installed but 
the problem also affects non-gnome/gtk apps like Opera.

Regards,
   Dennis