Keyboard focus issue: any character typed in any of the terminal windows sends output to a particular window
Issue
- Keyboard focus issue on a system for a particular user
- User logs in to the system
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Initially system works well
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After some time, all keypresses of printable characters are focused to one terminal.
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Clicking any of the terminals highlight that terminal, and carriage returns are registered by that terminal
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All other characters are registered in only one terminal.
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Problems is observed only with one user on one system.
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Rebooting the system temporarily resolves problem but it occurs again after some time
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Gnome Desktop
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