🚀 go-pugleaf

This is an un-official note, which means that it represents only my
personal opinion, and is not an actual statement from the Epoch
Development Team.

Mr. LaStrange and I have exchanged some email on this topic, and
basically the problem comes down to the fact that when a WM has a
passive grab on a key for an Epoch screen, pressing the key confuses
Epoch because the X server generates a FocusOut and then a FocusIn
event, even if the focus model is pointer driven (see 8.4.3.2, Xlib
reference). A possible fix would be to add code in x11term.c, around
line 1589, to have

	    case FocusOut :
		/* start of change */
		if (
		    (event.type == FocusOut || event.type == FocusIn)
		    && event.xfocus.mode != NotifyNormal
		   ) break;
		/* end of change */
		X_focus =


WARNING! This code has _not_ been tested, but due to the number of
complaints about this, I thought I'd post this for those who are X and
Emacs wizards. If anyone does try this, please send me email about the
results. Thanks.

-- 
Alan M. Carroll                "I hate shopping with the reality-impaired"
Epoch Development Team                 - Susan
CS Grad / U of Ill @ Urbana    ...{ucbvax,pur-ee,convex}!cs.uiuc.edu!carroll