Re: Weird focus problem with GNUstep applications in WindowMaker

[Eric Brunel]

Thanks for the info. It is more or less what I suspected. I chose  
Debian because they seem to be the only ones who have GNUstep packages  
in their standard distribution, but it seems they don't upgrade them  
very often. I checked the testing and unstable releases for the  
versions to come; There are a few improvements indeed, but they're  
still not at the latest versions. And besides, I'd prefer using a  
stable distribution.

What are my options here? It seems the file organisation for GNUstep  
in Debian is quite different from the standard one, so getting the  
latest sources and compiling them myself is quite likely to mess  
things up completely. Is there an unofficial repository somewhere that  
would allow to upgrade to more recent versions without breaking  
everything?

Thanks!
 - Eric -


On 22 juil. 10, at 12:14, Wolfgang Lux wrote:
> Eric Brunel wrote:
>
> > Is there any workaround for this? Or a trick to make it work  
> > correctly? The versions I'm using are the ones included in Debian  
> > 5.0 (lenny), which are:
> > WindowMaker 0.92.0
> > GNUstep make 2.0.6
> > GNUstep base 1.16.1
> > GNUstep GUI 0.14.0
> > GNUstep back 0.14
>
> These versions were released more than two years ago and there have  
> been two major upgrades since then, which contain a substantial  
> amount of bug fixes. In particular, the issue with the modifier keys  
> you observed was fixed shortly before the release of GNUstep back  
> version 0.16, so my recommendation is simply to upgrade to a more  
> recent GNUstep version.
>
> Wolfgang