Yesterday sometime, I lost the ability to change window focus. If I move the mouse over another windows, focus doesn't follow the mouse even though focus-follow-mouse is set in the Desktop->Preferences->Windows dialog box and has been this way forever. Changing to click-to-change-focus didn't help. I can "reset" the correct behavior by switching workspaces, but as soon as I click with the mouse on anything, I lose the ability to change window focus. Keystrokes continue to be delivered correctly to the window which has focus. The clipboard doesn't seem to work either. If I select some text, I can't paste it into another window. I also can't Paste text that has been Copy'ed. Finally, mouse clicks don't seem to be delivered to the root window (desktop) although I can click-drag and select a desktop icon. The top and bottom panels behave like windows (i.e. a mouse click disables focus changes, etc.) although selecting a panel menu item doesn't screw up changing the window focus. Selecting application menus does seem to screw up window focus. I noticed these changes in behavior after I has installed VMware Workstation 5.5 (beta), but I don't think the two are related. Regardless, I have uninstalled VMware Workstation and I have rebooted. I still can't change focus. I am running Metatcity 2.11.2-2. Changing back to Metacity 2.10.3-1 didn't help. I don't see that I've installed anything that could be causing this problem (see list appended below) and the only hardware change has been to move a USB device (iPAQ cradle) to its own port from a hub. I'm using the following yum repositories: atrpms.repo base.repo # Fedora RPMS from Freshrpms fedora-devel.repo fedora-extras-devel.repo fedora-extras.repo fedora.repo fedora-updates.repo freshrpms.repo jpackage.repo livna.repo I'm fully updated except for geronimo-specs* and struts11 which have dependency problems. I didn't see anything in the system log file that seemed relevant. Naturally, any help or ideas would be highly appreciated. Thanks. --- Vladimir -- Vladimir G. Ivanovic Palo Alto, CA 94306 +1 650 678 8014 Aug 22 00:01:07 Updated: OpenEXR.i386 1.2.2-5.fc5 Aug 22 00:01:15 Updated: bluefish.i386 1.0.3-1.fc5 Aug 22 00:01:17 Updated: OpenEXR-devel.i386 1.2.2-5.fc5 Aug 22 02:00:50 Updated: uim.i386 0.4.8-1.fc5 Aug 22 02:00:51 Updated: uim-qt.i386 0.4.8-1.fc5 Aug 22 06:24:38 Updated: gaim.i386 1:1.5.0-4.fc5 Aug 22 06:24:19 Updated: openoffice.org-core.i386 1:1.9.125-1.2.0.fc5 Aug 22 06:24:20 Updated: <all the openoffice.org 1:1.9.125-1.2.0.fc5 packages> Aug 22 07:01:45 Updated: awstats.noarch 6.5-0.1.050822.fc4 Aug 22 07:01:46 Updated: perl-Mail-Alias.noarch 1.12-6.fc4 Aug 22 08:01:53 Updated: awstats.noarch 6.5-0.1.050822.fc5 Aug 22 08:01:54 Updated: perl-Mail-Alias.noarch 1.12-6.fc5 Aug 22 12:02:20 Updated: MyODBC.i386 2.50.39-25.FC4.1 Aug 22 12:02:22 Updated: dhcpv6.i386 0.10-14_FC4 Aug 22 12:02:22 Updated: dhcpv6_client.i386 0.10-14_FC4 Aug 22 12:02:27 Updated: system-config-netboot.noarch 0.1.30-1_FC4 Aug 22 14:02:26 Updated: diskdumputils.i386 1.1.9-2 RPMs installed hand: 673 rpm -Uvh VMware-workstation-e.x.p-15576.i386.rpm 682 rpm -Uvh VMware-workstation-e.x.p-15576.i386.rpm 790 rpm -Uvh /mnt/hde1/scarlatti/usr/local/local/tmp/VMware-workstation-5.0.0-13124.i386.rpm 846 rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/RPMS.lvn/livna-release-4-0.lvn.5.4.noarch.rpm 992 rpm -Uvh /usr/local/tmp/libpixman-0.1.2-1.2.fc4.rf.i386.rpm 996 rpm -Uvh --force /usr/local/tmp/metacity-2.10.3-1.i386.rpm -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list