Re: FVWM: Re: "active focus" applications (MetaCard)

From: George Michaelson <ggm_at_connect.com.au>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 08:37:56 +1000

I have meta+<key> overrides in my .fvwmrc to do screen-shift stuff. I guess
thats pretty common.

However I am continually freaked by netscapes insistance on grabbing focus
when I do a "save to disk" form of URL download. That, and the non-grabbing
of focus into input fields on transitional popups. The screen shift META
stuff doesn't work until the mouse is re-shifted off the download info window.

This thing exposes how subjective focus is. Some windows which have little
or no feedback (eg ones with only a cancel button) should not grab focus.

Others, which you explicitly requested with intent of filling in fields should.

Is this an app bug, a runtime wm config bug, or an unrealistic expectation?

-George

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Received on Thu Oct 24 1996 - 17:39:33 BST

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