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graysky

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Recent gtk3 or vte update causes grief - debug for a proper flyspray

Following this update of the three packages shown below cause intermittent problems under xfce4:
*Ctrl key dropping out (ie the system ignoring it when I attempt ctrl+anything).
*Mouse focus is completely ignored; I click a menu title, but no menu appears and I cannot get an active window, eg my terminal.

Dropping down to a TTY and downgrading to the last versions of these three instantaneously fixes the behavior without me restarting X.  I could open two FS tickets, one against gtk3 and the other against vte3 but would rather get some feedback from the community to help direct the problem to a specific package.  I find nothing relevant in dmesg or /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

[2014-12-17 07:07] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2014-12-17 07:07] [PACMAN] upgraded gtk3 (3.14.5-1 -> 3.14.6-1)
[2014-12-17 07:07] [PACMAN] upgraded vte-common (0.38.2-1 -> 0.38.3-1)
[2014-12-17 07:07] [PACMAN] upgraded vte3 (0.38.2-1 -> 0.38.3-1)

Last edited by graysky (2014-12-17 18:26:37)

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clfarron4

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Re: Recent gtk3 or vte update causes grief - debug for a proper flyspray

I don't know about vte3, because I don't have any packages installed which depend on it. I also don't know about XFCE4, because I don't use it.

As for the other two (gt3 and vte-common), things seem to be behaving in Cinnamon with the latest versions.

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graysky

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Re: Recent gtk3 or vte update causes grief - debug for a proper flyspray

Thanks for the reply, perhaps we can hear from some folks running xfce4?  The vte3/vte-common is a dep of xfce4-terminal which I do use.

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alphaniner

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Registered: 2010-07-12

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Re: Recent gtk3 or vte update causes grief - debug for a proper flyspray

I'm running xfce4, but I can't risk that kind of breakage right now. I'll try to update later today.

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paneless

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Re: Recent gtk3 or vte update causes grief - debug for a proper flyspray

I'm running Xfce4 and this upgrade has had no adverse efffects here. However, I have vte and not vte3 as dependency of xfce4-terminal along with vte-common 0.38.3-1, and gtk3 3.14.6-1.

alphaniner

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Re: Recent gtk3 or vte update causes grief - debug for a proper flyspray

I just updated and don't seem to be having any issues. Ctrl seems to be working everywhere including xfce4-terminal hotkeys and tmux within it. I don't have problems switching window focus with the mouse, but I use focus follows mouse so that doesn't involve clicking anything.

Have you tried a clean profile?

Last edited by alphaniner (2014-12-18 18:49:32)

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graysky

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Re: Recent gtk3 or vte update causes grief - debug for a proper flyspray

Haven't tried a clean profile.  Upon a reboot, I cannot reproduce the original weirdness either (after update dating back to the current versions).  Guess I will keep using the system and see.

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alphaniner

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Re: Recent gtk3 or vte update causes grief - debug for a proper flyspray

I updated in a chroot from a minimal rescue system, and so wouldn't have experienced any issues that go away after a reboot.

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-Lysander Spooner