Re: Ratpoison losing input focus after fullscreen

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:23:22PM +0100, Thomas Kreuzer wrote:
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>I have a question regarding ratpoison and its input focus policy.
>When I use a program in fullscreen mode ratpoison loses keyboard 
>control and I am unable to do anything at all.
>
>I.e. if I run ratpoison with KODI (formerly XBMC) I can't use my 
>keyboard at all in KODI (since v14 KODI only gets keyboard events when 
>focused, it used to work before).
>
>If I run retroarch in fullscreen mode, I can use my keyboard, but 
>after I quit it, ratpoison is rendered unusable because now raptpoison 
>seems to have lost focus, and doesn't take any keyboard events 
>anymore.
>
>I think ratpoison does not retake the application focus from X, and my 
>question is: Is this a bug or a feature? :D

I see what seems to be the same behaviour with pysolfc, a tk/python app
I sometimes use, but shouldn't. When I quit pysol, the cursor warps off
the screen (I have 'addhook key banish' set), and I'm dead. If there's
something else in the frame, I can use a mouse to regain focus,
otherwise there seems to be no way to recover short of killing X.

Under other circumstances, a blank frame is not a problem.

I have ratpoison 1.4.8, but this bug has been around for a long time.

M.