Bug#719496: freeorion: input textfields doesn't work after a while.

[Markus Koschany]

> I have the exact same problem here.  Nothing special to do, I cannot
> modify a textfield in-game.  I am on amd64 as well, and I'm launching
> freeorion normally, from terminal or wm menu.


I'm running the game on Gnome 3 with Nouveau drivers and a Geforce 9600
GT card using amd64 as well. Everything seems to work fine.

Maybe this bug is related to the OIS Input plugin and the libois-1.3.0
library FreeOrion depends on. This plugin handles mouse and keyboard
input in-game.

By the way what kind of desktop environment do you both use?

Although this file wasn't intended to be editable, you can try to modify
OISInput.cfg in /usr/share/games/freeorion

# Define X11 settings
x11_mouse_grab=false
x11_mouse_hide=true
x11_keyboard_grab=false
XAutoRepeatOn=true

Play with false and true, perhaps this might help you. Just to make sure
that I understand you correctly:

You can use your mouse in-game and click on every icon, menu etc. but
you can't type something into the input fields but the mouse works fine?

Then try setting

x11_keyboard_grab=true

However usually it shouldn't be necessary to modify this file.

More feedback welcome

Regards,

Markus


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