Re: FVWM: Flickering of buttons and mouse focus

From: Dominik Vogt <fvwm_at_fvwm.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 12:42:31 +0200

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 10:23:27PM +0300, Tom Alsberg wrote:
> In the current FVWM (CVS), there seems to be a bug in mouse focus... I
> don't really know where the bug really is, but sometimes
> windows/widgets act like they lose and get the focus very fast for
> some time, like flickering.
> In GTK+ applications, for example, sometimes the buttons flicker when
> you're over them, and sometimes getting out of the window and getting
> back in helps... Also so with Netscape's toolbars sometimes...
> Most noticable is in Ghostview for me... When selecting an area with
> the middle mouse button, a menu is supposed to show up enabling me to
> zoom that area... It always worked, but now the menu appears for a
> fraction of a second, and then disappears... That happens only in the
> development/alpha FVWM from CVS... With FVWM 2.4.6 it seems fine, as
> it does with TWM/CTWM...
>
> Any idea what the problem might be?

I'm aware of this problem but don't know how to reproduce it at
will. It has been around for a long time though, long before
2.4 was released. Can you try to find a way to make it happen
fairly reliably?

Bye

Dominik ^_^ ^_^

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Received on Mon Apr 15 2002 - 05:43:28 BST

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