Re: Focus problems with firefox (and possibly others) possibly fixed

On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 06:46:02PM +0200 I heard the voice of
Rhialto, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> From the description, I'd guess that ctwm was receiving a Leave
> message with NotifyNonLinear when Firefox was moving the focus was
> moving from its main window to the dropdown. But that isn't a case
> which is affected in the change. So I guess there is something I'm
> still missing.

Yeah, it's actually an intermediate step that hits us.  We get a Leave
NotifyNonlinear on the Firefox window, which hits the bottom 3rd
branch there and InstallColormap()'s for leaving that window.  Then we
get the Leave NotifyNonlinearVirtual on the _frame_ around firefox and
hit the first; _that's_ what moved the focus to the root, and
squirreled up the whole process.

So, just like we scan for already-queued Enter's and skip [most]
things if we find one (no point spending time doing something that's
about to be superceded), my logic is that the Virtual's are always
intermediate steps in a process and we should just skip 'em.


> We should make a one-issue website about it and give this bug a cool
> name! Something like FocusDown, or SpectreFocus or something ;-)

Yeah, things are tough nowadays.  Remember back when you could just
fix a bug by just fixing it, without hiring an artist to create a logo
before you could release the fix?   ;>


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