Inspired one day, Ed Williams <ewilliam_at_infinet.com> scribbled:
> Programs like clocks and xloads do not accept the keyboard focus -- they
> can (and do) tell this to the window manager so that the window manager
> doesn't waste time or effort dumping characters down the bit bucket!
I've always used ordinary pointer focus, even before I started using
fvwm. When I used mwm (or 4dwm, or even twm, for that matter) with
pointer focus, I could move the pointer into an xload or xclock
window, then execute window manager commands using the keyboard.
Fvwm has never allowed me to issue keyboard-bound WM commands to those
two clients, and I've been using fvwm since version 1.20. It's
something that's always irked me, but never enough to *really*
complain. :-) Whenever I've wanted to terminate one of those two
clients through fvwm commands, I've always had to pick "close" or
"delete" from my root menu, then click on the window in question. With
any other window manager I've used, I just moved the pointer into the
window and pressed alt-f4: the window closes.
Of course, my setup could be screwy. In fact, it is -- I do some heavy
m4 processing on it before passing it to fvwm. But even before I
started using m4 on my .fvwmrc file, fvwm acted this way. Now I see
I'm not the only one to experience this behavior. Fvwm behaves in this
situation for me as it does for Randall Winchester. If I move the
pointer into, say, my xclock, it doesn't receive the focus, regardless
of whether or not another window had the focus beforehand.
So, I'm right back where I (and others) have started. What causes this
behavior? As I said, it's probably something in my setup. I know I
make those clients sticky with no titles or borders, and I remove them
from the window list and circulation list. (I'm going by my memory; my
setup is at work and I'm writing this from home.) Could any of those
attributes contribute to this condition? I don't have explicit focus
enabled for anything in my setup -- just a 'style "*" pointerfocus' at
the top of my styles.
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Received on Mon Oct 30 1995 - 23:13:46 GMT