bugs? focus doesnt follow mouse; epoch changes keymap

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4 total messages Started by Maxim Markevitch Sun, 21 Feb 1993 21:58

#1068

Author: Maxim Markevitch
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1993 21:58

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Does anybody have any ideas on these:

1. After some time of working fine with several screens,
the focus suddenly quits following the mouse --- when the mouse
leaves the screen for another screen, the cursor remains in the same
screen (while normally it jumps to that screen). The screen is being
highlighted as it should be under twm.
(At that time, the function M-x cursor-to-screen fails: the prescribed
screen rises, the mouse skips to that screen, but the cursor doesnt).

2. After some time of working fine, epoch suddenly changes the keymap
(particularly, I have  'xmodmap -e "clear Mod3"' to turn off the NumLock
modifier, and epoch turns the modifier back on).


I have epoch-4.2 running on a sparc IPC under openwin 3.0 and twm.

If anybody knows how to fix it, please email to me -- I'm not on usenet.
(Sorry if these things have been discussed in this group already.)

Thanks,
Maxim Markevitch
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Re: bugs? focus doesnt follow mouse; epoch changes keymap

#1070

Author: Fritz Knabe
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 09:06

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In article <9302212036.AA03717@a.cs.uiuc.edu> mmarkevi@ESOC1.BITNET (Maxim Markevitch) writes:

   1. After some time of working fine with several screens,
   the focus suddenly quits following the mouse --- when the mouse
   leaves the screen for another screen, the cursor remains in the same
   screen (while normally it jumps to that screen). The screen is being
   highlighted as it should be under twm.

I have also experienced this problem; usually it appears as a side effect of
running some other application (I run epoch on twm under X). Thus I know
that if I run mahjongg, the cursor in my epoch windows will no longer follow
the mouse unless I manually click. I guess it keeps me from wasting time
playing games.

Fritz Knabe

Re: bugs? focus doesnt follow mouse; epoch changes keymap

#1072

Author: Jim Russell
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 18:12

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knabe@ECRC.DE (Fritz Knabe) writes:

>In article <9302212036.AA03717@a.cs.uiuc.edu> mmarkevi@ESOC1.BITNET (Maxim Markevitch) writes:

>   1. After some time of working fine with several screens,
>   the focus suddenly quits following the mouse --- when the mouse
>   leaves the screen for another screen, the cursor remains in the same
>   screen (while normally it jumps to that screen). The screen is being
>   highlighted as it should be under twm.

>I have also experienced this problem; usually it appears as a side effect of
>running some other application (I run epoch on twm under X). Thus I know
>that if I run mahjongg, the cursor in my epoch windows will no longer follow
>the mouse unless I manually click. I guess it keeps me from wasting time
>playing games.

I get bitten by this as well (the most common offender is Lucid Emacs -- I
wonder if this is intentional :-)).  If anyone has a fix, please post it.

- Jim

Re: bugs? focus doesnt follow mouse; epoch changes keymap

#1076

Author: Jamie Zawinski
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 05:21

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In gnu.epoch.misc Jim Russell <jrussell@watson.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> >   1. After some time of working fine with several screens,
> >   the focus suddenly quits following the mouse --- 
> 
> I get bitten by this as well (the most common offender is Lucid Emacs -- I
> wonder if this is intentional :-)).  If anyone has a fix, please post it.

There is a bug in TWM (and descendants) which can cause this.  Lucid 
Emacs 19.4 comes with a file etc/twm-patch which should mostly fix this.

I believe GWM had a similar bug, which I think has been fixed (but I'm
not sure.)

The bug does not appear to be *completely* gone, but I haven't yet been
able to come up with a reproducible test case; the TWM patch makes it 
much more rare.

There is also a bug in MWM (and I think OLWM as well) where they send
CurrentTime as the timestamp of a TAKE_FOCUS message, which the ICCCM
explicitly forbids.  There is code in lemacs to work around this.

	-- Jamie

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