Chris Siebenmann <cks_at_hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu> writes:
> In FvwmIconMan, it is possible to have the selected window in an icon
> manager drift so that it is not the 'window' under your mouse; when this
> happens, mouse clicks and stuff cause things to happen to it instead
> of to the window under your mouse. There seems to be no way to force
> FvwmIconMan to select the window under one's mouse short of moving the
> mouse to another bit of the icon manager and back (or to move the mouse
> out of the icon manager entirely and back in).
>
> The easiest way to provoke this sort of drifting is to have sorting on
> and to have a window (perhaps the currently selected window) change its
> title automatically and thus get resorted, perturbing the order around.
> The selected window remains selected, even if resorting takes it out
> from under the mouse.
>
> I am not certain if this behavior is a bug (although if it isn't
> considered one, I think that it's at least confusing and odd). If it
> isn't, I think it is a problem that there doesn't seem to be an action
> function that will force the selected window to be the one under the
> mouse ('select' seems to select the already selected window).
>
> - cks
Yup, that isn't right. I'll look into it.
--
Brady Montz
bradym_at_cs.arizona.edu
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Received on Thu Feb 26 1998 - 22:42:09 GMT