Focus bug or feature?

[roger]

Hi,

I too like very much NEdit (fast and do what a text editor is supposed to 
do... easy!).

I do not observe the problem you've mentioned with NEdit. Mine (5.5) is 
dynamically linked against openMotif 2.1.30 on Linux / Xorg 6.7.0 and my 
Xfce/xfwm 4.2 is set to "Click to focus" and "Automatically give focus to 
newly created windows".

However I do have some focus problems that appear sometimes. I haven't been 
able to find a pattern to make them systematically happen so I can't really 
fill up a bug form. I guess I saw these (minor) problems mostly when using a 
browser such as Firefox or Netscape. Then, I just can't get the focus to an 
input text field (I can't input anything in that text field, actually) unless 
I move the window (browser) a bit around or I click another window, then back 
to my initial text field.

Also, sometimes - this is pretty rare though - I just can't use my current 
workspace (can't get the focus on anything, all windows are like frozen, 
including the panel) until I change workspace using the short cut [Ctrl][Alt]
[->] and go back to the initial one.

Sorry for not being more explicit.

Cheers,
Roger

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 23:27, Xavier Otazu wrote:
> 	Hi:
>
> 	I have some strange behaviour when changing window focus using keyboard
> shorcut (Alt+Tab) or lowering windows.
>
> 	Situation 1:
>
> 	I am working with 'nedit' (the most lightweight and full-featured text
> editor I've seen). I open a Find window (Ctrl+F) and insert some text,
> which is find by nedit. I do Alt+Tab to change focus to nedit, and I change
> text. But when I try some nedit shorcuts, they do no work. If I try to save
> (Ctrl+S) it introduce some estrange codes to text, and if I try Ctrl+F
> again, the find window does not appear. To solve this problems, I have to
> change window focus using mouse.
>
> 	Situation 2:
>
> 	I have Firefox on the lower window stack. It is partially overlapped by a
> 'xfce-note', and it is again partially overlapped by a rxvt terminal. If I
> click note (Firefox loses the focus) and place the mouse above the area
> where note overlaps Firefox and I do Ctrl+NextPage (my xfce shorcut for
> lowering windows) the result is that Firefox gets raised ! (I know it is
> raised and note not lowered because Firefox appears above rxvt).
>
> 	If instead of clicking note I place mouse above it (Firefox does not loses
> focus) it works right.
>
>
> 	Some ideas about these 'problems'?
>
>
> 	Talking about shorcuts, I would also like to request an enhancement for
> xfce 4.3 version. Actually we can define our keyboard shorcuts to manage
> windows. Would it be possible to include in these shorcuts some mouse
> buttons? That is, now i can define the Ctrl+NextPage shorcut to lower
> windows. Could it be possible to define it as Ctrl+Button3? Actually this
> behaviour is defined by Ctrl+Button2, but it cannot be changed by user.
>
>
> 	As you see I like to work with shorcuts to improve speed when managing
> windows.
>
> cheers,
>
> Xavier
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