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Article #1138Re: focus "bug" revisited
From: Hilarie Orman
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1992 20:51
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc7ee,742b96a271515cbc X-Google-Attributes: gidfc7ee,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-12-03 13:43:19 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!usc!news.service.uci.edu!unogate!mvb.saic.com!arizona.edu!arizona!ho Newsgroups: gnu.epoch.misc Subject: Re: focus "bug" revisited Message-ID: <27483@optima.cs.arizona.edu> From: ho@cs.arizona.edu (Hilarie Orman) Date: 3 Dec 92 20:51:51 GMT Sender: news@cs.arizona.edu References: <RV.92Nov14153210@abbott.cs.brown.edu> <BxzKup.EEL@news.dtc.hp.com> Distribution: gnu Organization: U of Arizona, CS Dept, Tucson Lines: 26