Thnaks for the input. The suggestion of J. Kotta (using Style Figure* Lenience ) did not work. What did the job was the suggestion in
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00371.html redefining the function XSetInputFocus. The problem has not been changed until the latest version (matlab 9). Kind reagrds and thanks again for your input Mathias On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:32:17PM -0600, Jonathan Kotta wrote: > 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. > > -- > Thanks, > > Jonathan Kotta > > Hofstadter's Law: > It always takes longer than you expect, even > when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. -- Dr. Mathias Palm Institut of Environmental Physics Room: FB1 U3235 University of Bremen P.O. Box 330440 D-28334 Bremen Phone +49 (0)421 218 62179 Fax +49 (0)421 218 98 62179 Email: [email protected] WWW: www.ram.uni-bremen.de
