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- From: dkarr@sierra.com (David Karr)
- Subject: Re: keyboardFocusPolicy problem
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.192042.13841@sierra.com>
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- Organization: Sierra Geophysics, Kirkland WA
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- References: <BzM8u1.Cn@boulder.parcplace.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:20:42 GMT
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- Tom LaStrange (toml@marvin.boulder.ParcPlace.COM) wrote:
- : In article <smr.724422189@hitkw14>, smr@pki-nbg.philips.de (Stephen Riehm) writes:
- : |> dkarr@sierra.com (David Karr) writes:
- : |> I experience similar problems when using HP's datebook program, I also
- : |> have everything set to explicit, and I can bring up the datebook with a
- : |> couple of keypresses, enter in a date and message, but in order to
- : |> select an event type, I need to use the mouse (whinge number 1), and
- : |> once I have used the mouse, the focus highlight around the current
- : |> widget is lost (whinge number 2), and I am forced to continue using the
- : |> mouse in this application until I close the window (at which point I am
- : |> able to fire up another one via the keyboard again.) (whinge number 3)
- : |>
- : |> If anyone has found how to fix this, I would be very grateful to know
- : |> how!
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-
- : I don't know if it will help but you should probably set the mwm/vuewm
- : resource "enforceKeyFocus" to False. When set to True (the default),
- : mwm/vuewm is not playing by the ICCCM rules. mwm/vuewm will do an
- : XSetInputFocus to top-level windows when it hasn't been requested to
- : and if I remember correctly, it does it with a timestamp of
- : CurrentTime! Very anti-social. I spent spent a bunch of hours
- : tracking this one down...
-
- : --
- : Tom LaStrange toml@boulder.ParcPlace.COM
-
- Nope, that didn't make any difference.
-
- I've been told that HP has a patch for this. I will assume that when we
- move to Motif 1.2 this will be resolved.
-
- --
- David M. Karr
- Sierra Geophysics, Inc.
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- Phone: (206) 822-5200 (x343)
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