From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 21 03:11:35 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C327E16A4DF for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 03:11:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 285E943D4C for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 03:11:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 050E39BD89; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:41:34 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:41:33 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Peter Jeremy Message-ID: <20060721031133.GJ27268@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20060326072009.GL25392@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20060326081719.GB753@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20060327005342.GX25392@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20060720083708.GA968@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tKy6e3LXpfmanBFM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060720083708.GA968@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 VoIP: sip:0871270137@sip.internode.on.net WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Programs not accepting input? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 03:11:35 -0000 --tKy6e3LXpfmanBFM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday, 20 July 2006 at 18:37:08 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > To resurrect a fairly old thread... > > On Mon, 2006-Mar-27 11:23:42 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Sunday, 26 March 2006 at 19:17:19 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: >>> My work system runs separate X servers on two heads (rather than >>> ximerama) and I have problems with windows occasionally refusing to >>> accept focus after I move the pointer from screen to screen (though >>> I can get an alternative window to accept focus and then switch back >>> to the window I originally wanted). This started after an X.org >>> upgrade but I'm not sure which one. >> >> Interesting. I've seen this one too: my mail window is at the left of >> the right-hand monitor on wantadilla (:0.1). Frequently when I move >> from :0.0 to :0.1, the window manager will highlight the window on >> :0.1, but focus remains with some window on :0.0. If I move further >> right and then back again, focus catches up with the correct window. > > I've been keeping a closer eye on my problem. I'm using fvwm1 with > click-to-focus and lose-focus-on-screen-switch. If I move from one > screen to another and quickly click on a window, the border changes > colour to indicate that it has focus but keyboard input is ignored. > If the target is an xterm, the cursor stays as a hollow rectangle > instead of being filled - it looks like the WM knows that the window > has focus but either forgets to tell the client or the client loses > the message. It I leave the mouse in the target window for a while > before clicking (maybe a few hundred msec) then all works correctly. > I wonder if some X events are being delayed and misordered. Yes, this seems possible. I'd say that you're describing the same problem as I do above. >> That's mainly irritating; the problem I describe above is annoying. > > Did you get anywhere in debugging it? Not really. It seems to be happening less often now. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --tKy6e3LXpfmanBFM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEwEXlIubykFB6QiMRAtfOAJ9d+2hejyZHjbLzITqOqECWPU1EQwCgpSjj JsYcTwqtdhxXe8pklKbGvwo= =ukFi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tKy6e3LXpfmanBFM--