On Fri, Nov23,01 10:52, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There are two things that I recognize as bugs, but I'm not quite sure if
> they are in BB itself, in bbkeys or in the interaction between the two.
> Here goes:
> 
> Blackbox Version 0.61.1
> bbkeys Version 0.8.2
> 
> "Window Switching Focus Error"
> ------------------------------
> Focus Model: Sloppy Focus
> Focus New Windows: Yes
> Focus Window on Workspace Change: Yes
> Image Dithering: Yes
> Full Maximation: No
> 
> Window Placement (probably irrelevant to this problem):
> Smar Placement (Columns), Bottom to Top, Left to Right
> 
> Now, occasionally, when I have two (or multiple) windows and use alt-tab
> to switch windows (as configured through bbkeys), but have the
> mouse-pointer over the first window, the window I alt-tabbed to will
> receive focus, but immediately give it back to the window with the
> mouse-pointer (as sloppy focus suggests).  The only way for me to focus
> the other window is either use the mouse to move the pointer to that
> window, or use the mouse to remove the pointer from the first window --
> once the mouse-pointer is over another window (including the
> root-window), alt-tabbing works as normal again.
> 
> Note that alt-tabbing works about 95% of the time and this weird
> behaviour occurs on seemingly random instances - I have not been able to
> determine a pattern.  Does anybody else experience this?
> 
>

your mouse is probably receiving small vibrations from your desk, thus
causing sloppy focus to give focus back to the first app.

Side question: I notice that sloppy focus is only in effect if the mouse
actually crosses the border of the window... feature, or bug?

DC
 
> "bbkeys stops working after certain Qt apps"
> --------------------------------------------
> 
> I believe we discussed this earlier, but IIRC it has not been fixed:
> When running a Qt-Application such as Licq, qtella or Opera bbkeys does
> not get back control over the keys if you selected a menu.  It seems
> that Qt-apps grab the keyboard and don't let go, until you physically
> focus another window using the mouse.  Interestingly, it appears that
> this does not occur when using Qt-3.0, but mostly with Qt-2.x apps.
> Possibly, this is a bug/misbehaviour/"Feature" in Qt?
> 
> 
> Just wanted to throw these two things into the whole discussion
> regarding the need for further development of BB. :)
> 
> -Jan
> 
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