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- From: cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)
- Subject: Re: mwm problems
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- Organization: Integrated International Systems Corp. One Longfellow Place, Suite 3309, Boston, Ma.
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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 17:23:20 GMT
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- rouilj@dl5000.bc.edu (John P. Rouillard) writes:
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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.
-
- >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.
-
- >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
-
-
- I am running many "dx" applications and do not have this problem with any
- of them... using 4.2a and Motif 1.1.3.
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-
- Perhaps you have a resource problem.
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-
- Charlie
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