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- From: smw@alcor.concordia.ca ( Steven Winikoff )
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: mwm problems
- Message-ID: <smw.716139109@alcor>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 15:31:49 GMT
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- In <ROUILJ.92Sep7152450@dl5000.bc.edu> rouilj@dl5000.bc.edu
- (John P. Rouillard) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- I've seen the same behaviour (Ultrix 4.2, with twm from X11R5).
- This is *very* antisocial!
-
- On the other hand, while I know nothing about mwm, with twm it's
- possible to make dxterm (and dxnotepad, and dxmail, and...) work
- properly by removing the "NoTitleFocus" variable from .twmrc.
-
- I don't know *why* this works, but it does work, at least for me.
-
-
- >I keep trying
- >to get my users to use xterms that don't have this "feature".
-
- One item high on my wishlist is to find a terminal emulator which
- behaves properly with respect to focus (like xterm does), but also
- keeps a *complete* history of lines scrolled off the top (which is
- one thing that dxterm does right; yes I know xterm claims to do so,
- but it loses information whenever the screen is cleared; yuk!).
-
- In other words, what is it that you recommend to your users?
-
- - Steven
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