
jalal wrote:
James Knott wrote:
I'm using KDE on both systems. As far as I can see, both have the same settings. I don't think I'm running gkrellm. Normally, the active desktop is highlighted. When this problem occurs, it's not and <ALT> TAB has no effect.
ALT-TAB was my next suggestion... :(
I can only guess that the focus is going somewhere and the 'somewhere' is a hidden/iconised window, but more than that is hard to say. You'll just have to shutdown as many things as possible and start them up one by one till the problem appears.
If it was some hidden/iconised window, it should be associated with one of the 4 desktops. However, none of them is selected. Also, I've been able to demonstrate the problem by immediately after login, opening one window, then a second. Closing the second window does not return focus to the first. Also, to rule out the possibility that something under my home directory might be causing the problem, I created a new user and found the problem also exists with that user.