On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:08 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> [email protected] writes:
>
>> Dear all, I use fvwm under debian :
>>
>> fvwm -V
>> fvwm 2.5.28 (from cvs) compiled on Aug 17 2009 at 22:43:46
>> with support for: ReadLine, RPlay, Stroke, XPM, PNG, SVG, Shape, XShm, SM,
>> Bidi text, Xinerama, XRender, XCursor, XFT, NLS
>>
>> I haevily use matlab and have the very annoying feature,
>> that every time a figure (coming in an own window) is adressed
>> this window gets the focus.
>> I already searched the web and found three solutions, none of which worked:
>
> This appears to be a very old issue, check here:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00373.html
>
> I don't know if this was ever resolved but you might want to check
> with Matlab.
>
>
IIRC, Matlab uses Java in some places. I have the following in my
config for some misbehaving Java apps:
# java apps think they should handle focusing, but do a terrible job
# this lets FVWM control focusing
Style sun-awt-X11-* Lenience
# same with Wine
Style Wine Lenience
You may want to verify that the figure windows match with FvwmIdent.
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Thanks,
Jonathan Kotta
Hofstadter's Law:
It always takes longer than you expect, even
when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
