[winswitch] Loss of focus and screen refresh when switching between work spaces

[Christopher Faylor]

Hi,
I am running xpra on a Fedora 24 system, using it to run "pidgin" so
that I can keep the client alive between home and work.  pidgin consists
of two windows:  a Buddy window and the main chat window which has multiple
tabs for different conversations.  I run pidgin on a Gentoo system on
workspace 2.  The xpra version is: xpra-1.0-2.fc24.armv7hl .

The Gentoo system is running xpra-0.17.6.

My problem is that, whenever I switch away from the workspace, the chat
window stops updating and I lose the ability to type anything in it when
I switch back.

The buddy window still remains active and, in fact, when selecting the
chat window, anything I type goes to the buddy window.  I do have things
set up so that the buddy window doesn't show anything on the taskbar.  I
only have the chat window icon on the taskbar.

If I toggle the "OpenGL" setting from the Xpra icon I can get back
proper behavior in the chat window until the next time I switch from the
workspace.

If it matters:  pidgin-2.11.0-1.fc24.armv7hl

I would appreciate any insight into how to fix this problem.

Thanks.