Re: Focus problems

I've had this problem as well, in the same scenario - try to copy and
past, using C-y, from the window to the Ratpoison prompt. The senario is
when I want to copy select and copy more than one item to the prompt,
otherwise I make the selection before bringing up the prompt.

Once the focus leaves the prompt, by clicking on the window, I can't
find any way of getting the focus to return to the prompt.

The only solution is to restart the X server. 

Michael


On 10.02.01, Brian May wrote:
> I have have this focus problem several times now, it basically requires either
> clever thinking or restarting the X server to recover.
> 
> To reproduce (I think - I don't want to try again right now):
> 
> 1. open firefire.
> 2. type c-t ! to open up the ratpoison prompt.
> 3. select some text from the firefox window.
> 
> The firefox window now has this focus. There does not appear to be any way of
> restoring focus to the ratpoison command prompt. Clicking in it does nothing.
> Any ratpoison command sequence results in the ratpoison window flashing, but
> focus is not restored. This in turn means it is not possible to change to
> another window, start new programs, etc. In fact opening new windows from
> firefox doesn't seem to work either.
> 
> Somehow I did recover last time, not sure what I did. Basically I right clicked
> on the firefox window and tried the different options in sequence.
> -- 
> Brian May <brian-q50s5p6zN2eXcgI2zpBr/[email protected]>
> 
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