[Solved] Key input stops working in urxvt in Openbox

For you who use the Openbox window manager and the urxvt terminal emulator, does your keyboard sometimes just kinda stop working in urxvt?
For example, in urxvt, type "openbox --reconfigure". Your keyboard stopped working, didn't it? "Alt-Tab" to another window and then back again. Typing in the urxvt windows works again!
Another example, load a urxvt window. Now go to a TTY (Ctrl-Alt-F2). Now go back to X. The same problem! No more keyboard input in urxvt!
This is a really minor bug. But seeing how Openbox is the most popular floating window manager and urxvt is the most popular terminal emulator for Arch Linux users, I can't believe that I'm the only one that noticed this...
Is there a way to fix this, so urxvt doesn't lose keyboard input?
Last edited by drcouzelis (2013-03-01 06:07:59)

Thanks for trying it out.
Here is my .Xdefaults file:
URxvt*iconFile: /usr/share/icons/Faience/apps/96/terminal.png
URxvt*scrollBar: false
URxvt*termName: screen-256color
URxvt*saveLines: 10000
URxvt*cursorBlink: true
URxvt*pointerBlank: true
URxvt*pointerBlankDelay: 987654321
URxvt*font: xft:Terminus:size=12
URxvt*perl-ext-common: default,fullscreen
URxvt*keysym.F11: perl:fullscreen:switch
URxvt*background: #0f0f0f
URxvt*foreground: #c8c8c8
URxvt*color0: #251f1f
URxvt*color1: #eb4509
URxvt*color2: #94e76b
URxvt*color3: #ffac18
URxvt*color4: #46aede
URxvt*color5: #e32c57
URxvt*color6: #d6dbac
URxvt*color7: #efefef
URxvt*color8: #5e5e5e
URxvt*color9: #eb4509
URxvt*color10: #95e76b
URxvt*color11: #ffac18
URxvt*color12: #46aede
URxvt*color13: #e32c57
URxvt*color14: #d6dbac
URxvt*color15: #efefef
I'm currently using the "rxvt-unicode-patched-left_ptr-unicode3" package, but I experienced the same problem with the official "rxvt-unicode" package.
As I expected, it sounds like the problem is just me... Maybe I can try creating a new user and slowly adding in my personal config files until urxvt breaks.

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