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Alan Ford <alan@whirlnet.co.uk> wrote:
>On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 18:19:04 GMT, Ian Stirling <Inquisitor@I.am> wrote:
>>Anyone have any clues what might cause Xwindows to eventually stop 
>>focusing a window, when it's clicked on, though clicking it's entry
>>in the task bar focuses it.
>>(It still raises when clicked on)
>>
>>I'm running fvwm95, and Xfree86 3.3.1 (to the later 3.3 series).
>>
>>Anyone hit this before?

>Yeah, I have seen it many times. What XServer are you using? If you have
>an S3 chip and are using XSERVER_SVGA, try using XSERVER_S3 instead.

MACH_64, I've also hit it with SVGA, on three different machines.

>I have not seen it recently, though. That could be one of two reasons: 
>either upgrading to 3.3.6, or swithching from SVGA to S3 XSERVERs.

Are you running fvwm95?

>ACHTUNG! A word of warning. If you have a Diamond Stealth with an S3 chip,
>and for some reason NEED the XSERVER_SVGA (e.g, like me, you have a bttv
>TV Card), DO NOT upgrade to 3.3.6, as SVGA breaks its support for S3, at
>least for some chips, it seems.

I do have a bttv card, IIRC, when I tried the pre-3.4 version, I could
get xawtv to work, if I specified -nodga on the command line.
I'll have to check that I'm remembering right.

>Also, do you have a second input device for X? I once tried using two
>mice (for experimentation only!), and that was a sure-fire way of getting
>that problem to exist straight away.

I don't, well only the keyboard.

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