Re: Three focus concepts

Rhialto <[email protected]> Sat, 18 Nov 2017 22:41:41 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.window-managers.ctwm
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Hi Steve,

just a quick reaction to one part of your mail:

On Sat 18 Nov 2017 at 15:17:25 -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> DUAL FOCUS
> ----------
> As far as I know, this never happens for people who operate ctwm with
> their mice. It's a keyboard thing. Sometimes, when a new window pops up
> or an old (that was on top) goes away, you get a situation where one
> window appears to have focus according to its colors and on-toppedness,
> but another window receives the keystrokes. Sometimes the colors and
> on-toppedness tell different stories.

I *think* what you describe is similar to or the same as somehting that
was mentioned earlier in this mailing list. Sometimes, apparently, the
focus is not on the window that looks like it should have the focus.
Note that the window decoration is (or should be) authoritative for
that. The window on top does not need to have the focus! (Or more
accurately, the window that gets the focus does not need to be brought
to the front: see options such as AutoRaise, ClickToFocus and RaiseOnClick).

Anyway, when window decoration and focus disagree, that's a bug, plain
and simple. We haven't been able to pinpoint it so far, though.

-Olaf.
-- 
___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert  -- Wayland: Those who don't understand X
\X/ rhialto/at/falu.nl      -- are condemned to reinvent it. Poorly.

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