Re: MapState: was Unexpected behavior on ctwm menus, with workaround

"Matthew D. Fuller" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.ctwm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 01:02:50AM -0400 I heard the voice of
Steve Litt, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> Yes, pressing and holding Ctrl switches states, but USUALLY
> releasing Ctrl brings it back to the state before pressing Ctrl.
> Sometimes, however, it switches permanently, and I can't identify
> the procedure to make that happen.

Move the mouse (or focus, rather) away from it before releasing.  Or
press, move focus, then release.

I suspect that's really a completely unintended accident of the
implementation, that everybody noticed and adopted and now it's a
Feature(tm).


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