Keyboard input ignored after switching registers

[John Ralls]

On Sep 2, 2014, at 6:28 AM, Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1. Open a credit card register from the Accounts tab, planning to enter details from a pile of credit card receipts.
> 2. Realise that the receipt you’re about to post is for a different credit card, so open its register, and post the receipt.
> 3. Click the tab for the first credit card, and try to type in the date for the next receipt in the pile.
> 
> At this point, alphanumeric keyboard input is apparently ignored, and it’s necessary to TAB out of the field and Shift-TAB back into it, or click the mouse in the date field.
> 
> I’m using 2.6.3 on an iMac with OS 10.9.4, and accept that I might have to put up with minor inconveniences such as this as a penance…

This is a very old bug, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378728, that affects all platforms, not just Macs.

Regards,
John Ralls