"Barry A. Warsaw" <bwarsaw_at_anthem.cnri.reston.va.us> writes:
> On 26 Sep 1996, I posted a patch to fix a problem with handling focus
> on multiple screen systems. The problem manifested itself when moving
> the pointer from a window on e.g. screen 0 to the root window of
> screen 1. In these situations, screen 0 would still get focus. See
> my message of that date for details.
>
> The fix was simple, I thought. But then on 30 Sep 1996, Mark Boyns
> followed up with a note that under SloppyFocus there were focus
> problems with my patch. Chuck subsequently did not install my patch
> in 2.0.45.
>
> I've just spent some time tracking all this down, and I now think that
> Mark's problem has nothing to do with my patch (sorry Mark ;). I
> think the SloppyFocus problem exists in 2.0.45 with or without my
> patch. I'd like Mark (or any other multi-screener) to verify, but I
> have been able to reproduce the problem from Mark's description with a
> vanilla 2.0.45. My patch does nothing to fix or hurt this, AFAICT.
Here's what I said on 30 Sept 1996:
I just tried the patch and it only works a little better for me. It
seems to only do the right thing when there are no windows that accept
focus on the second screen. For example:
screen0: nothing
screen1: xterm
screen2: nothing
If I move the mouse out of the xterm on screen1 and onto screen2, the
xterm cursor is no longer solid and focus appears to really be on
screen2. (I use sloppyfocus)
But, if the screens are like this:
screen0: nothing
screen1: xterm
screen2: xterm
When I move the mouse out of the xterm on screen1 and onto the blank
screen on screen2 (not touching the xterm on screen2), focus is still
in the xterm on screen1.
I didn't mean to say that your patch introduced new problems, it only
slightly fixes the existing problem.
I say go ahead and include the patch.
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Received on Thu Feb 20 1997 - 17:42:38 GMT