Closed Bug 81912 Opened 23 years ago Closed 13 years ago

autocomplete grabs X keyboard (breaks ALT-TAB)

Categories

(Core :: XUL, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

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()

RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: robbe, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Keywords: regression, Whiteboard: [Hixie-P0])

Bug occurs in today's snapshot together with XFree86 4.0.3. The autocomplete widget grabs the keyboard. This will interfere with a number of things: 1. The window manager will not get keyboard shortcuts delivered to it. That means users will not be able to switch windows, etc. during autocomplete. 2. Users with German keyboards can no longer enter @ or ~ when autocomplete kicks in. These symbols are entered using the AltGr key, and AltGr processing seems to be disabled while grabbing. There are other symbols affected as well, but these are the most common in URLs and mail addresses (LDAP autocomplete!). Users of other European keyboards will have similar problems, perhaps with different (more or less popular) symbols. A workaround is getting out of autocomplete mode, for example by moving the cursor left and right. Turning autocomplete off does NOT prevent this bug: the autocomplete box is not shown, but the keyboard is grabbed anyway. There is now no visual indication whether grabbing is in effect, making the effects even more mysterious.
keyboard input ruined by autocomplete in mailnews is bug 61439
Blocks: 61439, 80240
> Turning autocomplete off does NOT prevent this bug: the autocomplete box is not > shown, but the keyboard is grabbed anyway. That might be a bug by itself.
Yep this is annoying. I can't Alt-Fx to switch virtual desktops in Enlightenment for example.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
bug 61439 separately addresses: "German keyboards can no longer enter @ or ~ when autocomplete kicks in"
I'd be happiest if I could just turn off the dropdown in order to stop the focus stealing. Is there any way to do that? Turning off autocomplete doesn't do it; it just reduces the number of items in the dropdown to one instead of many. I'd prefer to turn off the dropdown entirely, because it's visually distracting as well as stealing my keyboard focus.
*** Bug 85365 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Akkana, I want the exact same thing. Perhaps a seperate bug should be filed for that instead of mutating this one.
Filed bug 97344.
Can anyone confirm that this is still a problem?
Priority: -- → P3
Target Milestone: --- → Future
Yes, it does still occur. Tested in build pulled from the tip today on Linux. The workaround is to simply click elsewhere then do your desired keyboard combination to, say, switch desktops.
dup *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 106707 ***
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
woops, duped in the wrong direction
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
*** Bug 106707 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This also occurs on Windows. -> All/All.
OS: Linux → All
Hardware: PC → All
Whiteboard: [Hixie-P0]
This is currently not fixed for Mozilla 1.1 on Linux. Very irritating (makes full keyboard navigation impossible if you need to check something in another window in order to finish choosing your URL!).
*** Bug 171921 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Why don't we vote this bug??
*** Bug 237697 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Expanding summary a bit; this would have prevented the dups from bug 237697 and bug 171921.
Summary: autocomplete grabs X keyboard → autocomplete grabs X keyboard (breaks ALT-TAB)
This isn't just location bar (or even autocomplete). It happens with HTML form drop-downs too. ==> XUL
Assignee: hewitt → nobody
No longer blocks: 80240
Status: REOPENED → NEW
Component: Location Bar → XP Toolkit/Widgets: XUL
Priority: P3 → --
QA Contact: claudius → xptoolkit.xul
Target Milestone: Future → ---
6 years later and still not fixed?
Please, vote this bug.
Component: XP Toolkit/Widgets: XUL → XUL
QA Contact: xptoolkit.xul → xptoolkit.widgets
Any news on this bug?
Another duplicate: Bug 454080
Other consequences of this bug: - "Change desktop" (ctrl + alt + arrow) does not work (Ubuntu) - Gnome panel: If a panel is set to Autohide, it will normally reappear when the mouse pointer is hovering over it. This bug causes the panel to remain hidden. - Normal tab navigation within Firefox does not work / changes behaviour (ex: pressing tab to move from address-field to search-field)
Workaround: Press ESC (makes the dropdown go away), then Alt-Tab
> Workaround: Press ESC (makes the dropdown go away) That is, unless Firefox is frozen. Ubuntu bug commenter says this happened to him and locked him out of X.
Tested with firefox 7.0.1 and Ubuntu Oneiric. alt-tab works as it should first try. Is anyone still having this issue?
Seems to work fine on Ubuntu 10.11. Altered tab behaviour (Comment #25) remains, but I guess that's a different bug..
confirmed. WORKSFORME, too, on Ubuntu with Gnome 2.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago13 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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