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Re: bugs? focus doesnt follow mouse; epoch changes keymap

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From: Jim Russell
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 18:12
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knabe@ECRC.DE (Fritz Knabe) writes:

>In article <9302212036.AA03717@a.cs.uiuc.edu> mmarkevi@ESOC1.BITNET (Maxim Markevitch) writes:

>   1. After some time of working fine with several screens,
>   the focus suddenly quits following the mouse --- when the mouse
>   leaves the screen for another screen, the cursor remains in the same
>   screen (while normally it jumps to that screen). The screen is being
>   highlighted as it should be under twm.

>I have also experienced this problem; usually it appears as a side effect of
>running some other application (I run epoch on twm under X). Thus I know
>that if I run mahjongg, the cursor in my epoch windows will no longer follow
>the mouse unless I manually click. I guess it keeps me from wasting time
>playing games.

I get bitten by this as well (the most common offender is Lucid Emacs -- I
wonder if this is intentional :-)).  If anyone has a fix, please post it.

- Jim
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