Sawfish packages can't read the keyboard under default ubuntu desktop.

Binary package hint: sawfish

I ran into this with the iswitch-window.jl package in particular. When you start it, it gives you a list of windows names, then you type some characters, and it is supposed to pare the list down to the names which contain that string. But when I try to use it under the Ubuntu desktop, it just hangs the session. The list of window names appears, but there is no response to keyboard input. Clicking mouse-1 makes the list disappear, clicking it again makes it reappear, and so on in a cycle. At no time in this cycle is there any response to keyboard input.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Apr 13 17:00:51 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: sawfish 1:1.3.5.2-1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
SourcePackage: sawfish
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic x86_64