[Geany] Problem (?) with focus in Geany

[Lex Trotman]

On 7 June 2011 08:13, Russell Dickenson <russelldickenson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/6/7 Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de>:
>> On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 08:53:06 +1000, Russell wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>
>> Does it still happen with the SVN version?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Enrico
>
>
> I don't know as I have not yet tested it. I will download, compile and
> test the SVN version.
>
> This morning I found that in fact this problem seems to happen even if
> I load a file via the menu File > Open > ... but that is also listed
> in the Recent Files list.
>
> Since it's been confirmed that Geany's focus should not behave like
> this, should I raise this in the bug tracker instead of leaving it
> here in the ML?
>

Nah, Enrico committed Matthews patch, see if it fixes it.

Cheers
Lex


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> Russell Dickenson
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