search window - impossible to close

this is happened about half a dozen times, now.

i'll open the search window to find something andwhen i try to close it, it won't. hitting the large search button on the bottom of my sl window. and hitting the X at the upper right of the search window has no effect. and i cannot access any other windows, chat or interact in any other way (i can use the search window as normal, however). the only way to get the window closed is to logout and log back in..

needless to say, this is annoying...

and this has only started, today.

I had this same thing happen to me. Another issue that's hitting me hard is much related. Whenever I open the build window and start editing prims (working on my first build job), anytimalmost e I manually edit the position of the prims (by entering a number), I can no longer click with my mouse on another prim (to select it), the ground (to deselect), or even close the window. What I have to do it either escape out of the build window--closing and reopening it every time I want to edit a new prim, or I can click another of the number fields, which will allow my mouse to click again.

It's extremely aggravating... though I can't see anything in the forums about it. It's affected me on a mac and a PC, though I don't understand why other builders aren't up in arms about it (unless I'm the only person it's happening to).

Another older error that's bothered me for weeks is panning... when I option click on my mac to pan around with my cam... many times it will be disabled, and I can't pivot around anything. It's random too.

That and the new window layering crap they have is annoying. It used to be you hit enter and you'd open the chat bar. Well, now you can't if you have the camera controls window open and used them... because that window will have focus. Same with the little music bar.

Downhill with each release. Virtually unuseable for me now.

I was just coming in to make a post similar to this

it isnt just with search

its with any box you want to pop open- search feature, inventory, land tools etc.

the only way to make SL usable again is to minimize the game and bring it back up


entirely annoying and i wasnt expecting anything like THIS to go wrong


im here trying to construct a SIM and its not worth closing and opening SL multiple times to place objects down, etc.. I mean, ugh, it IS worth it, it NEEDS to be done, but its such a headache



Do lindens read this post or do we need to be posting somewhere else? this needs to be fixed. naw`i`mean?

Post this in "current version feature feedback"

To report this bug to the Lindens you will need to make a reliable replication. I don't have this bug. There must be some other factors involved.

All my windows are closing properly.

I've produced a reliable reproduction for the edit window locking up after you hilight a field, and I've bug-reported it. I'm betting the search window thing is the same issue in a different form.

oh oh, I was searching for a group and now I am locked, can't close it. Same thing with the profile problem I listed.

same problems here. glad to know i'm not the only one. just at random i'll get to a certain point and have to hit command-w to close the build or find window.

and moving focus around to the buttons on bottom couldn't possibly be good for anything. who needs to use the return key to open the inventory window?

and in the build window i used to be able to drag select a number in an unfocused field. for example, i want to change the x-coordinate from 1.5 to 1.25 so i click just before the 5 to type, but it selects the whole thing and i have to click again. not too bad, but doing this over and over makes me shake something.

I'm having the same problems as most listed in this thread, but it seems more of a bug-report kinda deal.

Anyway - I don't understand why the tab key was changed into a focus rotator instead of the 'tab to look at typing avatar' thing. I for one, thought that was pretty cool.

You can still do that with Ctrl-\ now.

And this focus issue has been fixed internally--watch for it in tomorrow's 1.11.3 rollout.

Also, on the official Linden blog where many Lindens post about issues of interest, please see:

We care about Resident Experience problems!


Focus Pocus


I'm going to make more posts about relevant issues as they arise so you'll have a good idea of what we're already aware of, what we're going to fix, and what already has been fixed.

If you have this bug happen to you, so that you can no longer use your mouse to hilight fields, or close windows, or hit the pay button, (I've had all these), then do this when it happens:

Hit your Windows key on your keyboard to bring up the Start menu, (or alt-tab out to your desktop). Once you've gotten to your desktop, you can go back into SL, and the mouse will once again work as it should.

The easiest way to fix this problem is to simply click in the text field between two letters or numbers. Works like a charm for me.

I've been having this problem for days under Max OSX on my Macbook Pro. If I play for more than about 2 minutes I will experience this and it seems to happen all the time once it starts. It search, in about land, etc.. I've had this problem with both my built-in trackpad and my bluetooth mouse.

Earlier today it was almost impossible to chat with someone, my focus kept getting stuck. I don't have a super-reliable work-around yet but I find that by either minimizing SL then clicking in another window then re-maximizing SL that does it sometimes and when that doesn't do it I can use tab to navigate to a text field, highlight that and that fixes it.