I am trying to use the Arduino IDE and it is not letting me give it keyboard focus. I too am using FVWM. Even when I launch it in its own desktop, it does not work. I cannot seem to make the Arduino IDE take keyboard focus, I can click endlessly on the window and nothing happens. I can use the menus and click anywhere in the sketch window and move the input position (with the mouse, never with the keyboard). I don't want to hack the Arduino IDE code itself, unless that is the only solution. Is there something in .fvwm2rc I can set to fix this? The Arduino IDE *used* to work just fine. I *guessing* it is something about the newer versions of CentOS (presently CentOS 6, kernel version 2.6.32-696.6.3.el6.x86_64) or FVWM (2.6.6-1.el6) I am using now (the last time I was sure it was working was with CentOS 5 and fvwm 2.5.26-2.el5.2). Even when I force the Arduino IDE to use Java 1.6, it still does not work. I have version 1.0.5 of the Arduino IDE.
My .fvwm2rc has: Style "*" ClickToFocus At Mon, 31 Jul 2017 11:57:18 +0000 "Shriver, Daniel" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I typically had the opposite problem: java applications taking keyboard foc= > us when I wanted them to have none. > > I suggest you play around with the top level graphical object you use, and = > setFocusableWindowState(). > > See this StackOverflow thread: > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2820014/how-do-i-stop-workaround-java-a= > pps-stealing-focus-in-linux-window-managers/2820707#2820707 > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]=20 > Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 10:13 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: FVWM: Java applications don't get keyboard focus > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 02:11:53AM +0300, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote: > > > I've lived with this problem since 2008. Or even earlier. > > Ha ha. Me too! I even posted about this back in 2007 or so, but could never= > fix it. > > My work around was to launch Java applications (mainly Matlab) in their own= > desktop. But even then it sometimes requires I manually click the mouse... > > GI > > -- > Once you've seen one shopping center, you've seen a mall. > > > > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services [email protected] -- Webhosting Services
