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In article <9104081703.AA21554@avenger.think.com>, rad@THINK.COM (Bob Doolittle) writes:
> The first thing that I noticed is the "auto-raise-screen" feature.
> Is there some good reason that this was built into Epoch?

This feature is very useful to those of us who switch screens using
keystrokes instead of the mouse, e.g. through ^Z-4-b or ^Z-4-f.

> 
> The second thing which seems "un-X-like" is the window focus.  I happen to
> dislike "click-to-type".  So far, I've not found an easy way to make X
> window-focus map to Epoch screen-focus.  One byproduct of this seems to be
> that when I move my cursor out of Epoch entirely (say to an xterm), I have
> two solid cursors on my screen

The behaviour you want should be the default behaviour. I run an Epoch
under GWM, not click-to-type, and moving the mouse from one screen to
another switches the current screen, and moving the mouse out of any
screen causes the text cursor to switch to a hollow block. Try running
an Epoch with the -q flag to test it.

On the other hand, there is a bug involving passive grabs on Epoch
screens, where Epoch thinks it has the focus until another FocusOut
event. This happens when the WM traps a keystroke on an Epoch screen.
It seems to be fixed with the following patch to x11term.c, around
line 1596.

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