Odd window focus behaviour

[Olivier Fourdan]

John,

Just to make sure, the window decorations show that the window has the
focus, but when you type, text doesn't go to the window right?

Then, if you click inside the application, the cursor shows and you can
type?

Cheers,
Olivier.



On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 21:43, John Pettigrew wrote:
> In a previous message, Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:
> 
> > I do have this behaviour with "notepad" under wine, but it's not specific to
> > xfwm4 [snip] It does the same under kwin (kde3) and metacity (gnome-2.2)
> 
> Oddly, trying switching between window managers, I don't see them doing the
> same thing. KWin seems to behave "properly"; xfwm4 behaves as I mentioned;
> metacity (2.3.34) doesn't return focus at all (actually, thinking about this,
> I saw this under Gnome also, but at least it's not confusing!).
> 
> So, there seem to be two activities: return apparent focus to the parent
> window; return ability to type to parent window. KWin does both here; xfwm4
> does only the first; metacity does neither.
> 
> I agree that it's likely to be a wine thing - the fact that it's only cxoffice
> that suffers suggests this in any case - but I thought i'd ask here!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John
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