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On 20-Feb-97 23:41:45 Mark Boyns wrote:
> "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.
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The problem here is in focus.c; the attached patch fixes it to have
the desired behaviour.
Grant McDorman <grant_at_isgtec.com>
ISG Technologies, Inc.
http://www.isgtec.com
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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