From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 22 23:03:31 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 C753A16A4DA; Sat, 22 Jul 2006 23:03:31 +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 2D40943D45; Sat, 22 Jul 2006 23:03:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 73CB19BD8A; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 08:33:30 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 08:33:30 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Daniel O'Connor Message-ID: <20060722230330.GB16230@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <18075337.124391153395068232.JavaMail.root@vms068.mailsrvcs.net> <20060721031308.GK27268@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20060721143024.W79560@fledge.watson.org> <200607212338.01728.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yEPQxsgoJgBvi8ip" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200607212338.01728.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> 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@freebsd.org, babkin@users.sourceforge.net, FreeBSD Hackers , Robert Watson 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: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 23:03:31 -0000 --yEPQxsgoJgBvi8ip Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Friday, 21 July 2006 at 23:38:00 +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Friday 21 July 2006 23:02, Robert Watson wrote: >> I've occasionally also had weird focus problems with KDE. Among other >> things, it looks like occasionally the mouse release event is lost >> somewhere in the system (or something along these lines) -- I don't know if >> it's a driver problem, a moused problem, an X11 probem, or a KDE problem. >> If I press and release each of the buttons, especially the third button, >> things will often recover. As long as the button is "held down", KDE >> doesn't switch the focus and other events are largely ignored. Odd, eh? > > One thing that IS a KDE problem is having it manage 2 distinct desktops > (ie :0.0 [laptop LCD] and :0.1 [TV out]) - it occasionally decides to give > the other display focus after a dialog has been closed.. Are you sure? This sounds like the issue that Peter and I have been discussing in the context of fvwm. > Makes using kmail annoying because the only way to bring back focus > is to use the mouse :( Which reminds me of the reason for click focus in the first place: on the machines of 15 years ago, focus following the cursor could place an unacceptable load on the X server. Maybe what we're seeing here is related. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --yEPQxsgoJgBvi8ip Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEwq7CIubykFB6QiMRAtC7AJsHfIP/LVsaoud76sQ9ggQtXA/xxgCfRCFg 05OBN5IbCv53Wj9Js+/3TWk= =eFzX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yEPQxsgoJgBvi8ip--