Desktop doesn't get keyboard focus

I can only seem to reproduce this when I have "General Options->Focus & Raise Behavior->Click To Focus" unchecked.

I believe this is a Compiz issue and was probably introduced when I tried to handle the Gtk X input stuff introduced in 14.04, which has been a total pain.

I'll give it a look and see if I can come up with a solution for this without breaking everything else.

Actually, this isn't the Gtk grabbing stuff. This has been in Compiz since 2008! I agree that the desktop should be focused if the mouse is over it. I wonder why more people haven't brought up this issue...

At any rate, I'm going to add a config option to allow the behavior as it currently is, but default to the "focus desktop" behavior.

Thanks Christopher for having a look at this. Sorry that I don't have the knowledge to help :(

I also missed why there weren't more questions about this on the internet too!?

This bug was fixed in the package compiz - 1:0.9.12.1+15.04.20150330-0ubuntu1

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compiz (1:0.9.12.1+15.04.20150330-0ubuntu1) vivid; urgency=medium

  [ Chris Townsend ]
  * Change default behavior of focus-follows-mouse where the desktop
    will get focus when the mouse is over it. Also add option to allow
    old behavior. (LP: #1427636)
  * Clear out the lastMask vars when using the mouse to resize. (LP:
    #1348254)

  [ Eleni Maria Stea ]
  * Minor optimisation fix: Replaced glLoadIdentity, glMultMatrixf with
    glLoadMatrixf to avoid the unnecessary matrix multiplication:
    identity * some projection matrix

  [ Kevin Lange ]
  * WinRules plugin: boost arbitrary window size limits to something
    more reasonable (LP: #1431923)

  [ Stephen M. Webb ]
  * animations plugin: fixed a potential null pointer dereference (LP:
    #1101573)
 -- CI Train Bot <email address hidden> Mon, 30 Mar 2015 15:58:21 +0000

Congrats everyone on solving this so fast! Hope I'll get the fix on Vervet :)

My hero Christopher... (stumbled upon this fix I'd been missing for AGES whilst reviewing updates).

There was an old bug that I just made a duplicate of this one (for those wondering that noone bothered to fill a bug before).

Thanks for fixing this. However, this only escalates bug 1453757 (even though I am not sure if that is not a regression - I think id did not use to happen on 14.04).