78218 - F9 works only twice, need focus change afterwards

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 78440

(SeaMonkey :: Sidebar, defect)

Description

[wing-tung Leung]

Using Mozilla 2001032614, on GNU/Linux i386, I can only use the F9 key to show
the Sidebar once. If I hide the Sidebar, hitting the F9 for a second time won't
cause the bar to show up again. The only way I can let it come back, is using
the menu View::My Sidebar.

Or the second way: move my mouse pointer so another application gets the focus
and turn it back to the browser window. Now the F9 key works fine to pop up the
Sidebar. I can hide it using F9 now, but hitting the key again, and the Sidebar
stays away again.

Comment 1

[wing-tung Leung]

In case it could matter: I use the FVWM2 window manager.

Comment 2

[timeless]

i'd guess it's a focus issue. i don't remember if this is already reported

Comment 3

[NilsE]

Confirm on CVS pull 2001-05-01, 05:00 UTC on Linux/RedHat 6.2.
WM is sawfish. I have the sidebar on by default, so I can use F9 three times
until it doesn't work anymore without a focus-click. I couldn't find any
duplicate in the focus-bug world, so I'm marking this NEW.

Comment 4

[saari (gone)]

Yup, this bug exists in another form, that being that when you remove the
sidebar, if it had focus, it needs to toss focus back into the app. Either that
or we need a policy of focus always being somewhere.

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

I don't see this bug on Win98.  (It's reported against Linux, so it might be 
Linux-only.)

See also bug 61299, "if sidebar has focus, closing it should focus content 
area."

Comment 6

[Samir Gehani]

The fix for bug 78440 fixes this bug on Linux.  (Thanks to NilsE for pointing
this dup out (well, not /really/ a dup but the patch for 78440 fixes this as well).)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78440 ***

Comment 7

[sujay]

verified.

Comment 8

[wing-tung Leung]

using milestone 0.9, build 20010505.

I'm afraid it has become worse now. I still have the problem to reopen the
sidebar, and changing the focus to another application and moving it back does
NOT re-enable the F9 hotkey. As a matter of fact, no hotkey does work (Ctrl-N,
Ctrl-L, Ctrl-O), just if the window had no focus.

The way to "get back the focus": click on the page somewhere.