Focus problems using xfwm4

[Olivier Fourdan]

John,

What version?

I understand what you mean, however, it might have different cause, and
in any case, I am not able to reproduce such a problem.

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 16:32, John Pettigrew wrote:
> I'm using xfwm4 as my window manager. However, there seems to be a problem
> with it on my system, which I see using various other applications.
> 
> The basic issue is that xfwm4 can indicate that focus has returned to a
> previously active window (by changing the window border colour) after
> another window is closed. However, focus has not truly returned to this
> window - the mouse must be clicked in the window before it will accept
> keyboard entry. I have seen this behaviour using CrossoverOffice (in which
> it seems to be most repeatable and is most annoying), but also in ROX-Filer,
> Gemini (an email client) and (IIRC) The Gimp.
> 
> The fact that several other apps show this problem suggests that it lies
> within xfwm4 - passing focus to the previously focused window after the
> currently focused window is closed seems not to happen properly. I am using
> click-to-focus mode, giving focus automatically to newly created windows but
> with no raise-on-focus or raise-on-click set.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this, and can anyone suggest how to get rid of it?
> 
> John
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