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- From: rouilj@dl5000.bc.edu (John P. Rouillard)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: mwm problems
- Message-ID: <ROUILJ.92Sep7152450@dl5000.bc.edu>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 20:24:50 GMT
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- Just make sure that your users don't click IN any DECterm. I woudl
- guess that this goes for any DEC X application as well, athough I am
- not sure.
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- This same problem occurs with twm, and tvtwm. The DECterm application
- is set up to grab focus by themselves if the window is clicked in (I
- am not sure exactly how they do it), and the upshot of it is that they
- grab the focus out from under the window manager leaving the window
- manager quite confused.
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- The window manager really thinks that it is changing the focus to
- follow its policy, but it isn't really As you noted clicking in the
- new window (or using f.unfocus in twm*) will cause the focus to become
- normal (follow pointer) again. This is really annoying, I keep trying
- to get my users to use xterms that don't have this "feature".
-
- -- John
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