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Re: focus "bug" revisited

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From: Phil Johnson
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:20
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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
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