On Friday, 21 July 2006 at 23:38:00 +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Friday 21 July 2006 23:02, Robert Watson wrote: >> I've occasionally also had weird focus problems with KDE. Among other >> things, it looks like occasionally the mouse release event is lost >> somewhere in the system (or something along these lines) -- I don't know if >> it's a driver problem, a moused problem, an X11 probem, or a KDE problem. >> If I press and release each of the buttons, especially the third button, >> things will often recover. As long as the button is "held down", KDE >> doesn't switch the focus and other events are largely ignored. Odd, eh? > > One thing that IS a KDE problem is having it manage 2 distinct desktops > (ie :0.0 [laptop LCD] and :0.1 [TV out]) - it occasionally decides to give > the other display focus after a dialog has been closed..
Are you sure? This sounds like the issue that Peter and I have been discussing in the context of fvwm. > Makes using kmail annoying because the only way to bring back focus > is to use the mouse :( Which reminds me of the reason for click focus in the first place: on the machines of 15 years ago, focus following the cursor could place an unacceptable load on the X server. Maybe what we're seeing here is related. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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