Dear Maintainer,

While playing freeorion, an annoying bug shows up every time where it
becomes impossible to change the contents of textfields (e.g. in the
ship designer).

To trigger this bug, start a new game. Then go to 'Design' and design a
ship and save it (the keyboard works up to this point). Then close the
design window. Open the design window again and try to edit the Design
Name. Expected: Editing works. Actual result: The text cannot be altered
(copy and paste also doesn't work).

Control: reassign 759344 libois-1.3.0
Control: forcemerge 730405 759344

Hi,

thanks for your report. However the issue was already reported as

https://bugs.debian.org/730405

Actually this is a bug in the OIS library which is responsible for
keyboard and input events.

See also this thread in the official FreeOrion forum

http://www.freeorion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=7719

You can currently only mitigate this effect by editing

~/.freeorion/OISInput.cfg

and changing the value of x11_keyboard_grab to true.

x11_keyboard_grab=true

Apparently this issue only occurs with Xfce or specific window manager
setups. I can't reproduce it on GNOME 3 for example.

Sorry for the inconvenience and I hope that helps a little.

Markus