I can confirm this behavior. Its triggered by the "software-center- agent" that causes a refresh when it finishes.
** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to software-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/954193 Title: intermitten refresh issue when logging in to purchase an app Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Bug Description: Software-center intermittenly loses focus when logging in to purchase an app. I tends to lose focus around the @ sign of the email address. This behaviour can be witnessed if you goto any page and wait you will either see it flash of change back to the lobby page Possible cause: It could be that the system does a quick refresh once it has got any update for, for purchase/repo apps and it is this refresh causing the lose of focus. SCA Version: Django 1.3 Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 14:15:55) [GCC 4.4.3] preflight 0.1 SCA 12.03; r594 openid 2.2.1 pkgme-service https://pkgme-service.canonical.com/pkgme/api/1.0 {'version': 'r74'} OS: 64bit Precise USC Version: 5.1.12 Steps To Reproduce: 1. Open USC 2. click on for purchase 3. click on more info on an app 4. click on buy... 5. go to login Expected Results: I don't expect focus to be stolen when typing in my email address ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: software-center 5.1.12 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.29-generic 3.2.9 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Mar 13 16:12:40 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120228) PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en TERM=xterm LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: software-center UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/954193/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp