197457 - Mozilla will not concede focus to applications on other x screens if top-bar pulldown menus are open

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Corey Moncure]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

There is a consistently reproducible problem with event handling in Mozilla.  I
should be able to refocus to any application on any x screen when a menu pop-up
is open, and for now, I can't.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open mozilla
2. Open some other application on another X screen
3. In mozilla, click any of the 'File', 'Edit', 'View', 'Go' menus on the top bar
4. Move mouse cursor to another X screen, click on an application there

Actual Results:  
Unlike other applications, if this process is performed with Mozilla, the pop-up
menu will not disappear and it is impossible to refocus to applications on
another x screen without clicking first somewhere on the screen in which mozilla
runs.  The pop-up stays open.

Expected Results:  
Instead, clicking anywhere on any x screen, instead of within the pop-up window
itself, should cause the window to disappear, allowing refocus to occur. 
Currently, this will only happen if clicking is done on the x screen within
which Mozilla runs.

My setup for multiple x screens is as follows:

Using the NVidia nview hardware, NOT in twinview mode, but as separate x screens
on separate devices:

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "layout1"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	Screen      1  "Screen1" LeftOf "Screen0"
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "nvidia0"
	Driver      "nvidia"
	BoardName   "NVidia GeForce4 MX"
	VideoRam    65536
	BusID       "PCI:01:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "nvidia1"
	Driver      "nvidia"
	BusID       "PCI:01:0:0"
	Screen      1
EndSection

Comment 1

[simon annear]

Marking as works for me

Tested with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050302
running JDS Release 2

Used xeyes to test

Comment 2

[Jason Bassford]

No specific bug / patch referenced as a fix.

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