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 ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt (at) gmx.de
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