Odd window focus behaviour

[Olivier Fourdan]

John,

I do have this behaviour with "notepad" under wine, but it's not
specific to xfwm4 (unless I misunderstood your problem). What see is
that I focus the text editing area, then open the search window, then
close the window, and the focus returns to the main window, although if
I type, nothing shows.

It does the same under kwin (kde3) and metacity (gnome-2.2). Actually, I
doubt they react diferently because the window manager only focus top
level windows, it's up to the application to then set focus explicitely
to its subwindows.

You can check that very easily: to switch from xfwm4 to kwin,

killall xfwm4 && kwin &

to switch to metacity

killall kwin && metacity &

to get back to xfwm4

killall metacity && xfwm4 &

In all cases, behaviour is the same. I vote for a bug in wine.

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 13:35, John Pettigrew wrote:
> I use XFce4 rc3 as my main desktop now (very nice, BTW!) but have a few odd
> problems. One of these is strange focus behaviour when using apps via Wine
> (specifically, the CrossoverOffice version). The symptom is that, when a main
> window opens a dialog (e.g. a Find box) and this is closed, focus does not
> return to the main window - although the border indicates that it is focused,
> it will not accept text input until I click in the window.
> 
> Native linux apps don't show this behaviour, and it didn't happen under KDE or
> Gnome so there's obviously something odd happening here. Does anyone else see
> this, and can anyone suggest how I can stop it happening? I will be asking on
> the crossover list also to see if anyone there can suggest a solution.
> 
> John
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