[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#445317: base: if I move a window of a programm to another desktop I can not use the keybord or the mouse after

[Andrei Badea]

I seem to experience this bug too. I was able to reproduce it after moving a
window to another desktop, but only once. The steps which always lead to the
problem for me are:

1. Start xfce with a clean $HOME/.config directory.
2. Right-click on the desktop, choose Settings > Desktop Settings. Select the
Behavior pane and set Desktop Items to None.
3. Alt+F2, type "xfce4-terminal", Enter.

The terminal is not run and the desktop becomes unresponsive (mouse and keyboard
don't work). The desktop is still painted correctly though, as proven by the
clock on the bottom panel. Switching to a console usually works, as does
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace.

I started reproducing this after upgrading the system today (after not having
upgraded for a long time, so I got a lot of new packages). However, I don't
encounter the issue on a similarly (in terms of software) configured system
which I upgraded about two weeks ago. I can send a list of the packages "apt-get
dist-upgrade" would affect on the second system if needed.

Here is the requested information:

xfce4                                4.4.1
xfce4-icon-theme                     4.4.1-1
xfce4-mcs-manager                    4.4.1-1
xfce4-mcs-plugins                    4.4.1-1
xfce4-panel                          4.4.1-2
xfce4-screenshooter-plugin           1.0.0-3
xfce4-session                        4.4.1-2
xfce4-terminal                       0.2.6-5
xfce4-utils                          4.4.1-3
xfce4-verve-plugin                   0.3.5-1
xfwm4                                4.4.1-2+b1
xorg                                 1:7.2-5
xorg-docs                            1:1.4-2
xserver-xorg                         1:7.2-5
xserver-xorg-core                    2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-12lenny1
xserver-xorg-input-all               1:7.2-5
xserver-xorg-input-evdev             1:1.1.5-3
xserver-xorg-input-kbd               1:1.2.0-1+1.2.1
xserver-xorg-input-mouse             1:1.2.2-1
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics         0.14.7~git20070517-2
xserver-xorg-input-wacom             0.7.7.11-1

The kernel is 2.6.17 (don't ask).

The video hardware is GeForce Go 6600 TE/6200 TE (as reported by the driver --
can't tell exactly, this is a notebook) and I'm using the binary NVidia drivers
1.0-9269.

The mouse is a Microsoft USB IntelliMouse. I encountered the problem with both
the notebook built-in keyboard, as well as a PS/2 external keyboard.

I start X through GDM.

Nothing is written to .xsession-errors when the bug happens, so I'm attaching
.xsession-errors.bak. I can ping the machine and ssh into it.

Andrei

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