[Opera-Linux] Opera Dropdown Breaks Textfields

[Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen]

"Leo Przybylski" <przybyls at arizona.edu> writes:

> I am encountering a bug on Ubuntu Jaunty with Opera 9.6. Whenever I active  
> a dropdown and make a selection, my text boxes and text fields longer  
> work. That is, the cursor moves to a text field, but nothing happens when  
> I type. This is not just with forms, but anywhere in the browser. For  
> example, when I type into the url bar and the autocomplete dropdown  
> appears, I select one of the urls. Now none of the textfields in the  
> application will work. I am unable to edit the url further. The only way  
> to recover is to restart opera. Is there any way around this? Has anyone  
> encountered this besides myself?

Do you have an input method running (e.g. scim)?  There used to be a
mismatch between scim and X11 that would cause all key input to get
blocked in some cases (when a window popped up while typing).  I thought
that was fixed a while ago, though.

I think opera has a debug command line switch to print out all the key
events it receives as well (-debug-keys, maybe? -help should list
it...).  That should indicate whether it is the system or opera that
drops the events.

eirik