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On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Jeff Raven wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 02:56:10PM -0500, xOr wrote:
> > I've got a question regarding the Workspace::removeWindow function. Here
> > is the important section of the function:
> >   <code snippage>
> >
> > My question is: Why is XSetInputFocus called when there is no top window
> > left and sloppy focus is off, but not when sloppy focus is on?
> >
>
> As I recall the basic reasoning is as follows :
>
> Under sloppy focus, blackbox originally gave the window focus by calling
> XSetInputFocus with the argument RevertToPointerRoot... when the focus
> window disappears, this causes the input focus to fall to whatever is
> under the pointer. So there's no need for an XSetInputFocus call in the
> snipped code (if all else fails, the root window gets it).
>
> Under click to focus, we don't want this to happen -- the input focus
> should only go where we tell it, not where the pointer happens to be.
> So if there is no appropriate window, we have to put the input focus
> somewhere ourselves. The root window's no good, since we'll get a
> sloppy-focus-like behavior; the only other window available to blackbox
> is the toolbar.
>
> > The other reason is that when the toolbar is focused, keyboard
> > events are not grabbed. I'm going to try to make the toolbar
> > process keyboard events, does anyone know why it doesn't how
> > to fix it off the top of their heads?
>
> Err. Not grabbed by what? Blackbox? Or bbkeys? If you mean by
> blackbox, that's because the main toolbar window isn't told to
> report them when it's created (the subwindows are, though).
> Change line 102 of Toolbar.cc from
>
>   attrib.event_mask = ButtonPressMask | ButtonReleaseMask |
>                       EnterWindowMask | LeaveWindowMask;
>
> to
>
>   attrib.event_mask = ButtonPressMask | ButtonReleaseMask |
>                       EnterWindowMask | LeaveWindowMask |
>                     KeyPressMask;

This works great to resolve the issue with the keybind patch I've got, and
with much less effort :) Thanks.

>
> and the toolbar will get the key grabs too.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Jeff Raven
>


xOr
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