Ooh - that's a neat trick (easier than my kludge) I probably could upgrade the work box, but so blatantly don't have the time at work to do it.
Ho hum... Tom Payne wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 07:33:20PM -0700, Jordan Sissel wrote: >> In ion-3ds (and even as far back as ion2, iirc) Firefox will fail to >> recognize proper focus. Ion will have one frame highlighted indicating >> one firefox window has focus, while keypresses will be acknowledged in >> the other window. > > It's a GTK bug and was fixed (at last!) in 2.6.8: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109246 > >> This is incredibly annoying. It can sometimes be >> worked around by focusing another workspace or another frame several >> times over, then the "correct" firefox window will receive keystrokes >> as desired. > > Switching Firefox to full screen and back seems to slap Firefox into setting > the correct focus. This can be useful if you have to use an ancient > 'enterprise' version of Linux at work *cough*.
