Kupfer is a keyboard-oriented program, so it's strange that it suddenly won't respond to any key commands. Once I summon it, the window pops up, but nothing I type has any effect.
3 Answers
Start kupfer using the kupfer --debug
command and try again: that won't make it work but will at least give you a hint on why it doesn't work.
It is likely that some plugin causes an error preventing kupfer from working.
I had this issue with the Empathy plugin and it has bothered me for hours.
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1@JJD: Seems the firefox3 plugin fails for some reason. It's lookup up a key named
children
that doesn't exist in thenext
dictionary. I never used that plugin (nor Firefox for that matter) so I have no idea what could be wrong. You should contact the plugin author, perhaps he has a clue.– ereOnJul 4, 2014 at 6:24 -
I disabled almost all plugins and enabled firefox3 again. Now it works. Must be one of the others. I leave it like that for now. Thank you.– JJDJul 7, 2014 at 8:10
This happened to me when I deleted a folder that was in the catalog of folders for Kupfer to monitor. I had to do a complete uninstall and reinstall via synaptic to resume normal function.
Does your window manager have "auto-raise" (automatic focusing of windows as the cursor moves over them) enabled? If so, then unless your mouse is already in the area on the screen where Kupfer shows itself, then focus will immediately revert to any window that the mouse is currently over.
~/.config/kupfer/
or state other paths, please? Which Ubuntu version did you use at that time (please edit your post)?