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- From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Re: ** Return focus (???)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.091824.18165@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 09:18:24 GMT
- Article-I.D.: thunder.1992Nov12.091824.18165
- References: <1992Nov9.230637.25668@alf.uib.no>
- Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
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- In article <1992Nov9.230637.25668@alf.uib.no>, singg@alf.uib.no (Kurt George Gjerde) writes:
-
- > 1) Is it possible when an X-windows program is started that the
- > (input)focus is returned to the xterm that started it??
-
- (Assuming that by "X-windows" you mean the X Window System, more
- briefly called simply X...)
-
- No. There may be no such xterm (eg, program started via rsh, from a
- menu, or from some other terminal emulator), or it may be in no
- condition to receive input focus (eg, iconified, or perhaps even dead).
-
- Also, since input focus is a window manager function, this would have
- to be done as a request to the window manager, and there's no defined
- way to make such a request.
-
- > 2) Is it possible to "redirect" all keyboard-input that comes (to
- > the X-windows program) to the xterm that started the X-program??
-
- No. The first paragraph of reasons above is part of why. Besides
- that, though, note that xterm tends to ignore synthetic events....
-
- der Mouse
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