On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 03:41:29PM +0100 I heard the voice of
Aaron Sloman, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> I mentioned previously that I had recently switched back to starting
> X from level 3, instead of going via level 5 (i.e. now avoiding
> using graphical login and xdm/gdm or whatever).
>
> I *think* my previously reported problems of keyboard input focus
> not always following the mouse have disappeared as a result.
I highly doubt it. After all, I see it or related issues every once
in a while, and I haven't run xdm since last millennium.
And for that matter, the vtwm guys also report having apparently
similar troubles. I think we can pretty well say it's not any sort of
"X environment" issue, nor (strictly speaking) a window manager bug;
it's something wacky and possibly new the application[0] is doing.
Now, it may be something we can work around in the WM. It's still on
my list to look at, but that list never seems to shorten. And I
haven't come up with a reliable way to trigger it either, which makes
it pretty near impossible.
[0] Now, does that means something Firefox is doing? Or something GTK
is doing? I see issues around Evince more often than FF, which
leads me to squint suspiciously at the latter, but who knows.
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