On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 11:28:47PM +0100, Viktor Griph wrote: > I've encounted a strange, and undesired, behaviour with matlab 7.x > (maybe eralier versions too), and I've tried all fvwm options available > and I still can't get it to work right. My conclution is that matlab must > break some rule. I write this in hope that someone knows of a way to go > around that behaviour. > > Now to a description of the problem: I always run matlab in a terminal > (-nodesktop), and I want that terminal to stay focused, even If you issue > a command like "figure(1)". The problem is that, despite that I have > FocusStyle * !GrabFocus, OverrideGrabFocus, !FocusByProgram > in my config, matlap gives the focus to figure 1 if I isseu the command. > If a figure already is active it will focus and raise. Otherwise it will > start up focused. Even if I do 'Style "Figure *" NeverFocus' the figure > will be focused on the command figure(1) (or when clicking on the window > (but I use EnterToFocus, !LeaveToUnfocus, and not ClickToFocus, so it's > matlab doing that focusing too). I tried to look at the focus code myself > to see if there was anything I could do to force matlab not to focus it's > figures on itself, but wasn't able to make out how the code worked. > > I did however find that when starting matlab with -nojvm it does not steal > the focus at all. However I sometimes need the jvm, so it's not a good > solution. > > I need some help by someone who know the specification, and more of the > X-protocol than I do. I have two major questions: > 1. Is it possible to make fvwm not allow the said focus change to happen?
No. Every application can set the focus to any window or subwindow at any time. The window manager is not involved in this process at all. All the fvwm styles affect only applications that try to cooperate with the window manager by honouring the ICCCM2 rules. > 2. Is matlab breaking any standard (and in that case what), and do you > think it's worth submitting a bug report to MathWorks about it? That depends on what type of focus policy matlab requests. Use FvwmIdent on the matlab window. If the focus policy says "locally active" or "globally active", matlab is allowed to do that. If it says "passive" or "no input" matlab is breaking the ICCCM2 rules. I've never seen a company fixing a bug reported by someone from the open source community, so I doubt filing a report would be useful. Ciao Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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