[Bug 1231588] Re: Running unclutter without "-noevent" causes focus problems for Firefox and Thunderbird

[Travisgevans]

I was being driven up the wall with this problem for a long time (even
in a non-Ubuntu distro) and couldn't for the life of me figure out what
was going on until someone mentioned Unclutter! (I was blaming the
window manager, GUI toolkits, etc.--I never would have suspected
unclutter.) It does indeed seem to cause problems.

I sort of worry that -noevent could potentially cause other problems,
though. Apparently unclutter uses a lot of funky hacks to do its work
which causes weird things to happen in general. There's a rewrite of it
using the x11-xfixes extension which looks like a much cleaner solution:
https://github.com/Airblader/unclutter-xfixes

I found it fairly easy to build, and so far I haven't seen any problems
or weird behavior while using it. It would be nice if it could be
considered for inclusion in the Ubuntu repos.

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  Running unclutter without "-noevent" causes focus problems for Firefox
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