On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 03:22:34PM +0100, Julian Bradfield wrote:
> My department has just "upgraded" me to a new machine running FC6 -
> I was previously running FC5.

What version of fvwm is that?

> Among the several things that no longer work properly, one is
> window-manager related, but rather odd. Here's what happens.
> 
> I have a very simple desktop: a few windows, mostly xterms and
> emacsen, controlled by an IconMgr in the top right. I use SloppyFocus.
> 
> The following undesired behaviour happens:
> get a window (xterm) say, move the mouse in, and type - all ok.
> move the mouse to the icon manager entry for the window, and then
> through the entries for some iconified windows - our window should
> remain focussed. Move the mouse out in to the root window. Our window
> should still have focus. Indeed, it is still highlighted, but it loses
> keyboard focus - or at least doesn't respond to keyboard events. It
> doesn't regain focus until the mouse has been moved into another open
> window and back again.
> 
> I most often see this when opening a window from the icon manager:
> usually I then don't have keyboard focus in it.
> However, it's not quite that simple, as occasionally things work when
> I expect them not to.
> 
> What I find really odd is that I'm running the exact same fvwm binaries
> (fvwm 2.4.18 (or 2.4.20 - it doesn't matter)) as I was before in FC5, but
> still this odd behaviour happens, so there must be some change in the
> X server or the libraries to make it happen.
> 
> Any ideas?

Can you make a minimal sample configuration and exact step by step
instructions so that I can try to reproduce it here?

Ciao

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

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Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt (at) gmx.de

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