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Re: focus "bug" revisited

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From: Hilarie Orman
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1992 20:51
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In article <BxzKup.EEL@news.dtc.hp.com>, johnson@dtc.hp.com (Phil Johnson) writes:
|> rv@cs.brown.edu (rodrigo vanegas) writes:
|> 
|> > ... if i have several screens up in a
|> > single epoch process, i find that keyboarding a switch in focus from
|> > one screen to another does *not* actually change the focus.  A "C-z o"
|> > is necessary to persuade epoch into the switch.
|> 
|> I have had the same problem as long as I've been on epoch 4.x.  The key seems
|> to be that it happens when the window manager is used to change X window
|> focus with a keyboard binding (instead of by moving or clicking the mouse).
|> 
|> It happens to me when I iconify a window in mwm with a keystroke, and epoch
|> doesn't realize that the mouse cursor is now in the newly exposed epoch
|> window.  The keystrokes go to the iconified buffer.  Most annoying!
|> 
|> The workaround is to use C-Z o or to move the mouse out of and back into the
|> window.
|> 
|> 				- Phil

I have also had the same problem for the same time.  But it gets
worse.  There are times where I cannot recover, and epoch then loses
its ability to respond to mouse clicks, autoraise stops working, and I
can only switch screens via "M-X select-screen".  Is there any command
sequence that might let epoch out of this state?
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Subject: Re: focus "bug" revisited
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From: ho@cs.arizona.edu (Hilarie Orman)
Date: 3 Dec 92 20:51:51 GMT
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