Circa 2001-Oct-05 11:28:57 -0500 dixit Chris Menzel:
: On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Martin Rowe wrote:
: > > Just to add to the anecdotal evidence here: I have tried opening and
: > > manipulating a number of Qt apps followed by flurries of window and
: > > workspace shifting using bbkeys and bbpager but am still unable to
: > > reproduce this bug.
: > >
: > > -chris
: >
: > Unfortunately I can duplicate this - all too often :( I get it in KMail,
: > which usually sits on a workspace by itself, with empty workspaces either
: > side. Viewing messages seems okay, but emptying a folder and then using the
: > next/previous workspace keys guarantees I'll just get stranded on an empty
: > workspace - the first next/previous works, but then bbkeys just ignores me.
:
: I loaded KMail (I use pine ordinarily) in a workspace with empty
: workspaces on either side and configured blackbox with sloppy focus,
: emptied a KMail folder, then tried next/previous. bbkeys continues to
: work for me. Wonder what the difference could be...
Qt library versions, perhaps?
There are known focus problems with many versions of Motif; several
window managers are known to have problems with them (Window Maker,
sawfish among them). The usual method of tickling the bug is to open a
pop-up menu (in Motif, the buttons with the raised dash on the
righthand side).
Netscape v4 is famous for this: you use a pop-up menu on a webform,
then move to a text field on the same form, and suddenly the keyboard
focus no longer works. Click on Netscape's titlebar and things go back
to normal.
mwm doesn't seem to have this problem. Wonder if the bug is in the
focus-handling code of the window managers instead of in Motif...?
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