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Article #887Re: Epoch/tvtwm
From: Kevin Johnson
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 16:55
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 16:55
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>>>>> marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen) sez: > In article <10109@charon.cwi.nl> huub@cwi.nl (Huub Bakker) writes: > 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. $0.02= I tend to agree - I've been using with gwm with no apparent focus problems... -- #include <std_disclaimer> "If it runs emacs it's a computer, otherwise it's a peripheral." - me "I have two kitchen sinks: emacs and perl" - me .-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Kevin Johnson kjj@phx.mcd.mot.com | | Information Technologies Network Administrator Motorola MCG | | MCG postmaster |
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc7ee,133ae28009cbd1cf X-Google-Attributes: gidfc7ee,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-06-17 04:03:03 PST Newsgroups: gnu.epoch.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!darwin.sura.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ennews!mcdphx!paperboy!kjj From: kjj@pondscum.phx.mcd.mot.com (Kevin Johnson) Subject: Re: Epoch/tvtwm In-Reply-To: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu's message of Mon, 14 Jun 1993 08:06:52 GMT Message-ID: <KJJ.93Jun15095533@pondscum.phx.mcd.mot.com> Sender: news@phx.mcd.mot.com Nntp-Posting-Host: pondscum.phx.mcd.mot.com Organization: Motorola Computer Group, Tempe, AZ, USA References: <1993Jun2.042431.25317@cs.wisc.edu> <1ujgur$68k@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <RNP.93Jun12135506@hobbes.cs.brown.edu> <10109@charon.cwi.nl> <MARCA.93Jun14030652@wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 16:55:05 GMT Lines: 33