Odd window manager behaviour (and regression from Xfce-3)

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi Rob,

This version should fix that particular problem:

http://www.xfce.org/archive/test/xfwm4-4.0.4-cvs.tar.gz

Can you try it?

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 04:11, Rob Lahaye wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For a long time I have been encountering a very odd behaviour of the Xfce window manager.
> It's a little difficult to explain and that's why I haven't reported it yet.
> But now I hope to find a good listener, since this odd behaviour was already
> in Xfce-3 and appears to persist in Xfce-4
> 
> Important note: this odd behaviour is NOT there with KDE or Gnome as window
> managers!
> 
> Another thing is, that I only see it with my graphics program 'xmgrace'
> ( http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/ ), which is based on Motif.
> I don't have that many apps depending on Motif, but another one (OpenDX)
> works just find under XFce.
> 
> Some version info's:
> 
> FreeBSD OS 4.9 (most recent release)
> XFree86 4.3.0
> XFce 3.8.18 and 4.0.3.1
> Open-Motif 2.2.2_1
> Grace 5.1.13 (but any other version will do too)
> 
> OK, let me now try to explain what's the problem.
> 
> Open a dialog in Grace, which has both, a combo-box widget and a text-input-field.
> Immediately after opening the dialog, I can type text into the text-input-field, by
> simply clicking with the mouse somewhere in the text-input-field. So far so good.
> But as soon as I have used a combo-box, I cannot anymore bring focus to a text-input-field.
> Whatever I click in the text-input-field, I won't get focus there, neither will text from
> my keyboard appear in the text-input-field. I found two "solutions" for this:
> 1) close dialog and open again.
> 2) click on the title-bar of the dialog, which then gives focus to the text-input-field
> with a time delay of a split second.
> 
> The reason I assume the problem lies with XFce, is that neither KDE nor Gnome show this odd
> behaviour, but it does occur with both, XFce 3.8.18 AND XFce 4.0.3 !!
> 
> As I myself am not at all knowledgeable on these window manager issues, I hope that someone
> on this list may have a clue what is the problem here.
> 
> Best regards,
> Rob.
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