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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote : Re: [Bug 774447] Re: Dash text input does not get focus

I have not faced this issue, I know the issue is there as I have seen
other bug reports as well but its important that we have the steps to
reproduce the issue so that its easy and less time consuming for
developers to work on the fix

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Jorge Gustavo <email address hidden> wrote:
> I have no idea how to reproduce or debug this issue. Should I run unity in debug mode?
> It is quite annoying, since the keystrokes goes to somewhere else.
>
> $ cat /etc/issue
> Ubuntu 11.04
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux cagliari 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:24 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> $ dpkg -l | grep unity | awk '{print $2, $3}'
> gir1.2-unity-3.0 3.8.4-0ubuntu1
> gnome-themes-ubuntu 0.6.1
> libmeanwhile1 1.0.2-3ubuntu1
> libunity-misc0 0.2.1-0ubuntu2
> libunity4 3.8.4-0ubuntu1
> unity 3.8.14-0ubuntu1~natty1
> unity-asset-pool 0.8.20-0ubuntu2
> unity-common 3.8.14-0ubuntu1~natty1
> unity-place-applications 0.2.46-0ubuntu3.1
> unity-place-files 0.5.46-0ubuntu5.1
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/774447
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> Title:
>  Dash text input does not get focus
>
> Status in Unity:
>  Incomplete
> Status in “dash” package in Ubuntu:
>  Invalid
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
>  Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: dash
>
>  Found in 11.04 Natty Narwhal
>
>  I have yet to find the exact source of this bug, but occasionally when
>  hitting super to get the dash, the text entry field in dash is not
>  made the active widgit.  As a result, the text I type will be entered
>  into a textfield/textbox in the application I was previously using.
>  Additionally, while in this state, the dash can not be closed again by
>  pressing super or escape.  It can only be closed by clicking on the
>  top bar.
>
>  I'm sorry that I can not pinpoint the source, but this has happened to
>  me multiple times already, so I thought fit to report it.  I will try
>  to find the source and report back if I do find it.
>
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