Window manager question (Motif menus)

Bernhard Walle Bernhard.Walle at gmx.de
Fri Aug 29 21:13:17 CEST 2003


On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 at 21:09 (+0200), Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> On Fri, 29, Aug 2003, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> 
> > > > in some Motif applications the window gets unfocused while opening a
> > > > menu, e.g. the right-click-menu of Acrobat Reader or in Eclipse on a
> > > > right-click-*sub*menu. After the menu is closed the focus is set back.
> > > > With focus I mean the title bar highlighted blue.
> > > > 
> > > > Is this intended, a bug of Motif or a flea in xfwm4? Other window
> > > > managers behave different, kwin behaves a bit like xfwm4, icewm does not
> > > > unfocus.
> > > 
> > > I saw similar behaviour with some Java apps (Sun Linux JDK 1.3.x/1.4.x),
> > > but I think its a bug with AWT.
> > 
> > since AWT uses Motif the question stays the same. 
> 
> It does, but I saw this behaviour only with Linux motif apps. Apps
> linked against NetBSD openmotif 2.1.30 are ok.

I don't know which version of Motif Java uses ... Lesstif seems to be
ok, too.


Regards,
Bernhard

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