bug#5907: 24.0.50; Alt-Tab from Emacs causes gnome-terminal to lose keyboard input

[Stefan Kangas]

tags 5907 unreproducible
close 5907
thanks

Mingming Ren <portis24@gmail.com> writes:

> 1. Open emacs and do some editing
> 2. Alt-Tab to switch to terminator or gnome-terminal
> 3. keyboard input lost in terminator or gnome-terminal
> 4. to get it back in terminator or gnome-terminal, I have to
>   a. right click terminator or gnome-terminal or
>   b. Alt-Tab switch to other application and then switch back
>
> I only find this problem with emacs and terminator or gnome-terminal.
> Alt-Tab from emacs to other apps like firefox works ok.
> Alt-Tab from other apps to terminator or gnome-terminal works ok.
>
> It seems to me that emacs holds the keyboard input focus and doesnot
> wish to give it to terminator or gnome-terminal when Alt-Tab.

Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:

> I could not reproduce it, not even with ibus running.  My guess is that there
> are some problem with the interraction of Emacs and ibus.  But I can't 
> reproduce
> the error.

That was 10 years ago and there has been no further updates since.
I'm therefore closing this bug report.

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