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marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen) writes:

> 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.

We continue to have focus problems running Epoch 4.2 under Mwm and Vuewm
(HP's VUE window manager, basically mwm with extensions).  It's totally
reproducible.  Whether it's Epoch's fault or the window manager's I don't
know, but it's annoying.

I have a window manager keyboard binding (ctrl-tab) to iconify the window
with the focus.  If I iconify the current Epoch window from the keyboard,
leaving the mouse pointer to fall through to an epoch window underneath, the
just-iconified window still has the epoch focus (even though the window
manager has highlighted the newly-exposed window).  Keystrokes in this window
go to the iconified buffer.  It's necessary to move the mouse out of and back
into the window to wake epoch up to the change in focus.  Alternately, C-z o
(switch screen) always goes directly to the epoch screen with the mouse.

I see this behavior with mwm and vuewm running on HP 9000 s300 and s700
workstations -- I haven't had the opportunity to try it on a different
vendor's platform.

					- Phil