105147 - Impossible to enter a URL without a window manager

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 76854

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Mark Grosberg]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT; DigExt)
BuildID:    20011012

I had setup a machine running VNC client on some cheap hardware and have it 
viewing Mozilla running on a server (both Linux) with the VNC X server. There 
is no window manager running and the Mozilla window is positioned via the -
geometry command line option. 

With no Window manager running, it is impossible to enter a URL into the URL 
field (the keyboard events are not sent there correctly). With a Window manager 
keyboard events are funnled correctly. 

This setup is for a little Kiosk where no window manager is necessary.

I verified the configuration by launching an Xterm in place of Mozilla. It 
accepted keyboard events just fine. 

Should a window manager be necessary to receive keyboard focus events?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch vncserver
2. Launch Mozilla on vncserver with no other X apps or Window manager
running. Use -geometry 600x400+0+0
3. Click on URL entrybar as you normally would. Cursor appears as it gets 
focus. Type in URL. 


Actual Results:  No characters appeared on the URL bar.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Duplicate of "Mozilla ignores keyboard input if a window manager is not used"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 76854 ***