Re: Epoch/tvtwm

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From: Marc Andreessen
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 08:06

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In article <10109@charon.cwi.nl> huub@cwi.nl (Huub Bakker) writes:

   |> So, I don't think it has to do with title bars, but probably does have
   |> with epoch's monitoring of EnterNotify and LeaveNotify events.

   I think Epoch is not a very nice X application. It is not using Xt
   and is having a strange input mechanism. 

That doesn't make it a bad X application, if it does what it does
correctly.

   So it is possible that in certain situations it is loosing event.

   But we also had focus problems using Epoch and twm. These problems
   disapeared using Mwm. Mwm is garanteed to be ICCCM compatible, twm
   is not.

   Conclusion: both can be wrong, but my experience points in the twm
   direction: try another window manager.

It's almost certainly the window manager's fault.  I've been using
Epoch 4.x under mwm and derivatives, and even tvtwm, constantly for
two solid years now and I've *never* seen a focus problem.

Cheers,
Marc

--
Marc Andreessen
Software Development Group
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu

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