Re: Focus deadlock

[Pete Jemian <jemian@anl.gov>]

What are the GUI applications involved?

On 10/23/2014 1:15 PM, Specht, Eliot D. wrote:
> I’m running an application on a Linux x86_64 machine which opens several
> windows for user input and data display. It runs fine unless I have an
> EPICS areadetector IOC running in the background, in which case I get a
> “focus deadlock”, where focus shifts rapidly between two application
> windows and the screen becomes unresponsive to keyboard or mouse input.
> The problem occurs under Gnome but not KDE. Running KDE is an effective
> fix, but it would be nice to get to the bottom of the problem. Can
> anyone suggest what’s going on?
>
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