[Xastir] Unable to enter data into dialogs after a little while

[David A Aitcheson]

Tom

I am seeing the same thing with the almost same setup. Have not had a
chance to do any digging into the problem.

I also am seeing a lot of Gnome crashing even with other programs so a
Gnome issue may be the culprit.

I was suspecting a hardware issue as I am suspicious of my HDD and have
gotten "potentially bad sector" warnings but now I am more suspicious of
Gnome.

73
Dave
KB3EFS



On 01/01/15 01:47, Tom Russo wrote:
> Have had this issue a few times recently while trying to use Xastir on 
> Ubuntu 14.04 during SAR missions.
>
> After a few uses of dialog boxes, suddenly am finding that I can't type into
> the text fields.  This seems unrelated to keyboard focus issues, and I haven't
> correlated it with any particular events during the run.
>
> The issue is cleared if I exit Xastir and restart, but returns after a few
> uses.  
>
> I can paste data into the text boxes by typing into another window, 
> highlighting text, and then middle-clicking the text box.  It applies to all
> dialogs --- object creation, messaging, coordinate calculator, you name it.
>
> Has anyone else seen this crop up?
>
> Windowing system is "gnome flashback."  Wondering if there's some weird 
> Motif/Gnome3 interaction problem.  Have not yet tried it under Unity (which I 
> hate (hate, hate, hate)).
>
> Since this impacts object and message input, it makes for a very bad problem
> during active SAR missions, and I'd like to start nailing it down.  I'm 
> working an ELT mission as I type this, and the issue resurfaced after exactly
> two dialog boxes.
>