"Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, Sep 04, 2005, Johan Vromans wrote about "[ctwm] Re: Problem with OOo
> beta 2":
> In short, I guesed that something bad happens in OpenOffice following the
> focus change. I suspected that maybe the difference between ctwm and those
> other window managers people tried is that those other window managers use
> a "click to type scheme" (consistant with the fad to emulate MS-Windows...),
> unlike ctwm's default behavior.
> So, I tried using ctwm but f.focus()ing the Openoffice window in which I was
> trying to elicit those context-menus, and lo and behold - the context menu
> DOES WORK NOW!
Wow!
> So my current guess is that ctwm is not doing anything bad, but rather that
> something in OpenOffice or Gtk or whatever is not dealing properly with
> focus-follows-pointer window managers.
Which, I think, makes GTK the main suspect, since I do not expect OOo
to do something low level bad. But you never know...
> I will continue to explore this guess, and come back to the list with my
> findings, if any.
Yes, please.
>> Have you tried to put the mouse on the File menu, click once (so it
>> appears) and then move the mouse to Edit. On my configuration, the
>> Edit menu appears only to disappear (mapped behind the window?) almost
>> immedeately. Moving to View makes the View menu appear (which stays
>> visible), then Insert appears/disappers, and so on. I get the same
>> behaviour with Firefox menus.
>
> Strangely, I cannot replicate this behavior, but another ctwm user I know
> did. Maybe it has something to do with my using an antique ctwm version
> (3.5.2b, from 1999, believe it or not...)? Hmm... Maybe this bug really
> has something to do with how ctwm behaves?
You need to have AutoRaise and RaiseDelay set for this bug. Maybe you
can find something interesting with this as well?
Thanks a lot,
Johan
