Re: FVWM: Re: "active focus" applications (MetaCard)

From: Barry A. Warsaw <bwarsaw_at_CNRI.Reston.VA.US>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 15:59:21 -0400

>>>>> "LS" == Leeman Strout <leeman_at_redrose.net> writes:

    LS> As for having to move to the dialog box to type things in, I
    LS> rather appreciated the method olwm used. If you explicitly
    LS> activated the dialog, warp the pointer and grab focus. If
    LS> not, map the window and don't grab focus or warp the pointer.
    LS> The real beauty would be warping the pointer to a dialog box,
    LS> and then unwarping it back to its original position.

I don't think it's necessary in X to warp the pointer (usually a bad
thing) to redirect focus to any other top-level window within an
application. I seem to remember this being called `passive' focus
model in X, but again, I'm not an Xpert.

-Barry
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