Re: Weird focus problem with GNUstep applications in WindowMaker

[Gregory Casamento]

What settings do you have selected in the WindowMaker preferences?

GC

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Eric Brunel <eric.brunel@pragmadev.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm currently using the latest Debian Linux distribution with WindowMaker as
> my window manager and a few GNUstep applications, mainly GWorkspace and
> Terminal. And I have a weird problem with the keyboard focus. The problem
> seems to happen only when a window is focused automatically by WindowMaker.
> In this case, most of the time, if I type a key corresponding to a menu
> shortcut, the corresponding menu item will be triggered. But if the key is
> not a keyboard shortcut for a menu item, it will go to the application
> window normally. So for example, if I start to type 'cd' in a terminal
> window, the 'c' will trigger the Edit/Copy menu item, and only the 'd' will
> appear in the terminal. There doesn't seem to be any visual hint when the
> problem happens, the window seems focused, with its title bar in the correct
> style. And the problem does not always happen, but happens quite often
> anyway.
>
> Usually, clicking on another window, then back on the previous one, or
> playing with the window a bit will solve the problem. But if another window
> is opened on top of it and then closed, the focus might get messed up again
> This forces me to be very careful and test every window each time it gets
> focused automatically, which is quite painful. I had the same problem after
> resizing an already active  window too.
>
> I tried changing a few WindowMaker options, like 'Do not let applications
> receive the click used to focus windows' and 'Automatically focus new
> windows', but whether they're checked or not, the problem still happens.
>
> 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
>
> Thanks!
>  - Eric -
>
>
>
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