Re: keyboard grabs and keynav... (bug 77517)

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 15:40, Owen Taylor wrote:
> jacob berkman <jacob ximian com> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 13:22, jacob berkman wrote:
> > > if an app grabs the keyboard, and a user uses the space bar to activate
> > > a button, the focus indicator goes away and the user can no longer
> > > navigate the dialog with the keyboard (at least in the logout dialog).
> > > 
> > > should gtkbutton restore the previous grab?  should it do something
> > > different?  should the dialog just re-grab after every toggle?
> > 
> > what evil things would happen if it didn't do the keyboard grab at all
> > and just did the gtk_grab_add()?  (gtk_grab_add() has no inline docs so
> > i'm unsure as to what it really does)
> 
> Does it fix the problem if gnome-session calls XSetInputFocus to actually
> focus the logout dialog?

yep.  i was about to try that earlier but i didn't.  thanks.

 - jacob