[Geany] Problem (?) with focus in Geany

Russell Dickenson russelldickenson at xxxxx
Sun Jun 5 22:53:06 UTC 2011


On 2 June 2011 11:21, Russell Dickenson <russelldickenson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2 June 2011 11:15, Ross McKay <rosko at zeta.org.au> wrote:
>> Russell Dickenson wrote:
>>
>>>Sometimes I have found in Geany that after opening a file I can't
>>>scroll down. After a few milliseconds I realise that the content pane
>>>doesn't have focus so I click on it with the mouse cursor and can then
>>>navigate via the keyboard. After this happening once or twice I have
>>>realised that the most common occurrence is that the toolbar is
>>>focused, so using the up and down arrow keys is navigating through the
>>>buttons on the toolbar.
>>>
>>>Is this how Geany is supposed to behave? If not, has anyone else seen
>>>this behaviour?
>>
>> I see this too, it happens when I open a project and it loads all the
>> open files again; focus is on the toolbar. 3 TABs and focus is back in
>> the document.
>>
>> I'm on Fedora 15 x86-64 with Gnome 3 desktop and Geany built from SVN,
>> currently r5820, but this was happening to me in past Fedora (14,
>> probably also 13) and earlier SVN builds.
>> --
>> Ross McKay, Toronto NSW Australia
>> "Click me, drag me, treat me like an object"
>
>
> Ross and Lex,
>
> Thanks for your replies. Lex - I'll try to find a sequence of actions
> which recreates the problem. Ross - I'm using Geany 0.20 under GNOME 3
> but I'll try it also under Xfce and see what happens.
>
> I don't know whether or not this happened at all with previous
> versions of Geany.
>
>
> --
> Russell Dickenson


OK - I have finally found the sequence which will recreate this
problem (at least for me). It happens when I open a file via the
Recent Files menu.


-- 
Russell Dickenson



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