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[Mathew Hodson <mathew.hodson@xxxxxxxxx>]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1231588 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1231588

** Changed in: thunderbird
   Importance: Medium => Undecided

** Changed in: thunderbird
       Status: Invalid => New

** Changed in: thunderbird
   Importance: Undecided => Unknown

** Changed in: thunderbird
       Status: New => Unknown

** Bug watch removed: Mozilla Bugzilla #831854
   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=831854

** Bug watch removed: Mozilla Bugzilla #917027
   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=917027

** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #923349
   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=923349

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1231588
   Running unclutter without "-noevent" causes focus problems for Firefox and Thunderbird

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Title:
  Keystrokes are hijacked by inactive window

Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News:
  Unknown
Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Recently, possibly in the upgrade to Thunderbird 24.0, I've found that
  the front-most, active window often will not receive keystrokes.
  Instead they are being sent to the background, inactive window. For
  example, I attempt to reply to an email, and start typing. I see text
  in the body as expected, then a second after beginning, the text is
  sent to the main "mail index" window. The front-most window is shown
  as selected in the pager, while a non-selected window receives the
  keystrokes. This means that for long periods, I am unable to send and
  compose emails. In addition, I'm also often mid-sentence when I
  realise that the characters aren't appearing, and I've done some weird
  filing/labelling in the mail index window.

  I can alt-tab or click between windows, but cannot seem to type into
  the compose window. Otherwise, clicking does all you expect it to. You
  can select menus of the window; you can even select text (although
  it's the "background window" grey instead of the "foreground window"
  blue).

  I tried to make sure that it was not an issue with X/KDE by testing to
  see what the reported active window was.

  $ xwininfo | grep -i 'window id'
  xwininfo: Window id: 0x3c001f6 "Inbox - Uni - Mozilla Thunderbird"
  $ xwininfo | grep -i 'window id'
  xwininfo: Window id: 0x3c0670c "Write: Re: Foo Bar - Unicode (UTF-8)"
  $ sleep 1 && xprop -root | grep -E '^_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW'
  _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW(WINDOW): window id # 0x3c001f6
  $ sleep 1 && xprop -root | grep -E '^_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW'
  _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW(WINDOW): window id # 0x3c0670c

  It seems that even when the active window is reported to be the
  compose window by X, it will still not receive input. I presume that
  it's Thunderbird hijacking the active window internally.

  I don't see this in any other application, except for Firefox
  occasionally. It used to be fairly frequent in Firefox six months ago,
  but appears to have diminished in frequency since then.

  
  Here is a troubleshooting thread for this issue.
  https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=111&t=117704

  Here is the related thread for Firefox.
  http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=111&t=110202&p=260008#p260008

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: thunderbird 1:24.0+build1-0ubuntu0.13.04.1 [modified: usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop]
  Uname: Linux 3.9.4-030904-generic x86_64
  AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3
  Architecture: amd64
  AudioDevicesInUse:
   USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
   /dev/snd/controlC0:  lee        2493 F.... pulseaudio
  BuildID: 20130913150408
  Channel: Unavailable
  Date: Thu Oct  3 11:02:13 2013
  ForcedLayersAccel: False
  IfupdownConfig:
   # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
   auto lo
   iface lo inet loopback
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-16 (290 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1)
  IpRoute:
   default via 192.168.2.1 dev wlan0  proto static 
   169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0  scope link  metric 1000 
   192.168.2.0/24 dev wlan0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.2.2  metric 9
  MarkForUpload: True
  MostRecentCrashID: bp-8716a067-8317-4ad0-808a-2254e2120524
  PrefSources:
   prefs.js
   [Profile]/extensions/{9533f794-00b4-4354-aa15-c2bbda6989f8}/defaults/preferences/prefs.js
   /usr/lib/mozilla/extensions/{3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6}/{847b3a00-7ab1-11d4-8f02-006008948af5}/defaults/preferences/enigmail.js
   /usr/lib/mozilla/extensions/{3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6}/{847b3a00-7ab1-11d4-8f02-006008948af5}/defaults/preferences/000system.js
   [Profile]/extensions/{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}/defaults/preferences/lightning.js
  Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=24.0/20130913150408 (In use)
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   google-talkplugin 4.7.0.0-1
   adobe-flashplugin 11.2.202.310-0raring1
   kopete            4:4.10.5+dfsg1-0ubuntu0.1
   rhythmbox-mozilla 2.98-0ubuntu5
  RunningIncompatibleAddons: False
  SourcePackage: thunderbird
  SubmittedCrashIDs:
   bp-8716a067-8317-4ad0-808a-2254e2120524
   bp-8c247ae3-5982-4262-b65d-57a252120307
   bp-1ab81b2c-1607-4919-868d-380852120205
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-26 (159 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 09/07/2012
  dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: A19
  dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
  dmi.board.name: 0XN71K
  dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.board.version: FAB1
  dmi.chassis.type: 8
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.chassis.version: 0.1
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA19:bd09/07/2012:svnDellInc.:pnDellSystemXPSL702X:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0XN71K:rvrFAB1:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr0.1:
  dmi.product.name: Dell System XPS L702X
  dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

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