Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 19483
give more detailed focus hint for modal dialog
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:37:43 UTC
Background: Yesterday I upgraded OpenOffice.org from 1.1RC3 to RC4. Last night I started to write a specification document, an hour or 2 later I went on the Internet using another virtual desktop. When I came back to the virtual desktop containing OpenOffice.org where I was working on my document, I found that any mouse click caused a beep sound and no useful activity. The only thing I can do with any of the 3 OpenOffice.org windows (see beepng20030912.png) appears to be to drag them round by the title bar. I can not even kill them by clicking on the "X" kill icon. I know I can do a "kill -9 <pid>", but I am keeping it up for now, in case your developers want me to run any useful diagnostics. I will include the file and a screenshot as attachments. I am using (from Kernel Startup Log): Linux version 2.4.20-20.7 (bhcompile@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-113)) #1 Mon Aug 18 14:56:30 EDT 2003 Results from ps: ps aux | grep -i open $ gavin 22217 0.3 22.9 189312 110424 ? S Sep11 2:11 /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1RC/program/soffice.bin /home/gavin/myprojects/gcf_ejb009/doc/CalcSpec.sxw $ gavin 22257 0.0 0.6 9768 3360 ? S Sep11 0:00 /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1RC/program/getstyle-gnome --vcl-system-settings-window 35651586 Results from top: 10:21:15 up 4 days, 9:51, 4 users, load average: 0.04, 0.04, 0.03 104 processes: 102 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 2.7% user 0.9% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 96.3% idle Mem: 481804k av, 475080k used, 6724k free, 0k shrd, 61456k buff 363744k actv, 0k in_d, 9720k in_c Swap: 979956k av, 88980k used, 890976k free 178088k cached PID PPID USER SIZE SWAP RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 22217 1 gavin 109M 1872 107M 47412 S 0.0 22.9 2:11 /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1RC/program/soffice.bin /home/gavin/myprojects/gcf_ej [...] 22257 22217 gavin 3360 0 3360 2880 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1RC/program/getstyle-gnome --vcl-system-settings-wind [...]
Created attachment 9239 [details] shows the 3 OpenOffice.org windows (all that I had open)
Created attachment 9240 [details] last saved version of the document
I have marked this as the highest priority for 2 reasons: (A) I still have the application "running", with the idea that a developer may be abe to tell how to provide more useful diagnostics. (B) I think this might be a potential showstopper for release of 1.1 Final. Feel free to down grade the priority, if this appears to be an isolated case, or appears to be just a wierd quirk on my system, or any other good reason! It is 11:20 am in Dublin, Ireland now. I will check my email every hour or so for the next 8 hours.
Grrr... My fault. The one place I had not clicked was on the "Outline Numbering" dialog! So it was not frozen. Suggested Enhancement: Would it be possible to display some kind of tool tip or message box, if a user clicks on an OpenOffice.org window other than the open dialog box, to warn that they should return to the dialog, or to automatically return focus to the dialog (or some such)?
reassigned to bh@openoffice.org
OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker - Feedback Request. The Issue you raised has the status 'New' pending further action, but has not been updated within the last 4 years. Please consider re-testing with one of the latest versions of OOo, as the problem(s) may have already been addressed. Either use the recent stable version: http://download.openoffice.org/index.html or consider trying the new OOo 3 BETA (still in testing): http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/ Please report back the outcome so this Issue may be Closed or Progressed as necessary - otherwise it may be Resolved as Invalid in the future. You may also wish to search for (and note) any duplicates of this Issue that may have advanced further by checking the Issue Tracker: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/query.cgi Many thanks, Andrew Cleaning-up and Closing old Issues as part of: ~ The Grand Bug Squash, pre v3 ~ http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/announcementbeta.html
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".
changed description to be more specific on the problem. in multi screen environments this can be annoying, esp. if the dialog pops up not on the active screen.