On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Christopher Wolf wrote:
> As I begin to get carpel tunnel from switching between the mouse and
> keyboard, I begin to start trying to do as much as possible from the
> keyboard, which is situated correctly.
>
> I find that the WindowList action, when initiated from the keyboard,
> and in the situation where the window is also chosen using the
> keyboard, that the window chosen is not focused correctly.
>
> A search of the archives yeilds the message
> <31224F9D.3E37CADA_at_aries.tucson.saic.com> and it's followup, in which
> this is mentioned, and Chuck mentions it is a known bug.
>
> Has anyone found the solution to this bug yet? I'd hate having to
> debug it myself, since I need to debug from another terminal across
> the hall, not having a dumb terminal connected to my workstation.
Are you using pointer focus? This is probably a problem I had, where
selecting a window from the win list wouldn't give it focus.
fvwm does in fact give the window focus. It then takes the focus away
because the pointer isn't in the window. Make sense? Anyway, I made a patch
that warps the pointer to the window so it will keep focus. I use it so I can
switch windows with the keyboard using WindowList (bound to compose). I don't
know if this is best solution because pointer warping is generally considered
evil, but it works for me.
I don't know why you need a dumb terminal to debug fvwm. I don't have one.
I just have a menu option to restart to an xterm, which I can then start
the fvwm I've compiled from. Any debugging messages fvwm prints then go
to the xterm.
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Received on Mon Aug 18 1997 - 19:48:31 BST