Closed Bug 24211 Opened 25 years ago Closed 24 years ago

Keyboard scrolling not working when mouse out of frame

Categories

(Core :: XUL, defect, P3)

x86
Linux
defect

Tracking

()

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 52414

People

(Reporter: andrew, Assigned: leger)

Details

(Whiteboard: [PDT-])

Keyboard scrolling under Mozilla has problems. Sometimes it doesn't work at all, but I can always get it working by clinking into the URL entry area and then clicking back in the document. After that the up/down and pageup/pagedown keys will work. If I move the mouse pointer outside of the Mozilla window, all scrolling response stops. If I move it back, it starts again. Note that this is _not_ because of my Window Manager settings. I am using Sawmill as my Window Manager under Gnome (Debian 2.2) and this doesn't happen in (e.g.) Navigator 4.7 which will retain focus correctly regardless of where the mouse is on the screen.
Which version/build of Mozilla are you using?
I just tried it with 2000013108 (Linux) and am still having the same problem: I can scroll with page up / page down while the mouse is over the window. I can't scroll while the mouse is outside the window. I can scroll again when I move the mouse back over the window. I think it is probably WM related, and I know some WMs do behave in this way (the active window is the one below the mouse cursor) but Netscape 4.7 (e.g.) doesn't work this way under Sawmill (or any other WM I have used).
Assigning all open "nobody@mozilla.org" bugs to "leger@netscape.com" to weed thru.
Assignee: nobody → leger
I don't think it's a duplicate of 23401 - this action seems suspiciously like a particular mode of X behaviour (i.e window only active while mouse cursor over it). I don't use X in that way, so I don't expect that behaviour from any of my X applications, but I can imagine a program which is using an incorrect bitmask for the window active status (e.g).
What focus mode are you using in your sawmill settings? Click, enter, or enter-exit? What you have described IS the default focus behaviour for Sawmill (enter-exit).
I'm using 'click' to focus. The window _is_ focussed regardless of the mouse cursor position (e.g. the title bar is displayed in 'active' colour). ISTR that the same bug showed up when I was using IceWM previously, but I haven't used IceWM for some months so I can't be completely sure.
I'm getting the same thing with the 2000-2-01-10 build. This happens in Sawmill and Enlightenment, so probably isn't related to window manager. Arrow keys and PgUp/PgDn don't work when mouse is outside of window, work when it is moved back in, plus when I change the focus to another window then back to mozilla the keys won't work at all. This is NOT a duplicate of 23401 because "javascript error : controller has no properties" does not appear in the console window.
moving to xp widgets
Component: Browser-General → XP Toolkit/Widgets
Nominating for Beta1, as other scrolling problems are already marked for beta1. Hopefully when the other problems are fixed this one will be too.
Keywords: beta1
Whiteboard: [PDT-]
Works for me in linux build 2000-2-16-09 !
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Wonderfull! It's works fine!
*spam* changing qa contact from nobody@mozilla.org to me (BlakeR1234@aol.com) on 121 open or resolved (but not verified) bugs. sorry for the spam everybody, but most of these bugs would just remain dormant and not checked by QA otherwise. I'm not sure how so many bugs have nobody as their QA contact, but I suspect this is the fault of some sort of bugzilla corruption that happened at some point (most of these bugs are in the 20000-26000 range, and I don't see where in the activity log that QA contact explicitly changed to nobody@mozilla.org) Anyways, sorry again for spam. If you really get annoyed, I'm usually available in #mozilla on IRC for torture.
QA Contact: nobody → BlakeR1234
jrgm, can you verify this fix on linux please? Thanks!
QA Contact: BlakeR1234 → jrgm
I have linux dualbooted...and it works fine for me with 62608. vrfy
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
verified fixed; linux 200062608 with twm and enlightenment; when WM is set up to do 'mouse click sets focus' then moving the mouse away from the browser window does not deactivate keyboard focus (i.e., keyboard scrolling works). (When 'keyboard focus follow mouse' then, well, keyboard focus follows mouse, and browser does not get kbd events (by design)).
I notice that this problem has returned with Linux build 20000925, at least, but I have seen it intermittently for the last couple of weeks.
Status: VERIFIED → REOPENED
Resolution: FIXED → ---
Yes, actually open as bug 52414. Resetting this to FIXED (or whatever). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 52414 ***
Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago24 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Oops, meant fixed, but anyways.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
I should also have thanks for following up on this bug. That it had been opened as a new bug that was actively being tracked is not always easy to discover, so reopening this was the right thing to do. Thanks again.
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