On 10/07/99, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Staffan_H=E4m=E4l=E4?= said:
>On Wed, 06 Oct 1999, Dan Espen wrote:
>
>> Check the man page for the various focus policies, you might find
>> one you want.
>>
>> I prefer mousefocus myself. If your problem is the pointer getting
>> in the way, track down "unclutter". It makes the pointer disappear
>> after some amount of time passes without the pointer moving.
>
>No, that's not what's causing the trouble. I have the focusing set
>up as I want (ie clicktofocus), and that works for text and everything
>else except for the keyboard commands I have set up. For example
>I have F11 set to iconify, and F12 to maximize. They work as long
>as the mousepointer is positioned over the window, but when it's not,
>I just get "4~" for F12 and "3~" for F11 entered as text. Also shift-
>insert also only works when the mouse is positioned over the window.
>I believe this might be something that's caused by the X server, not
>fvwm, but I just wanted to ask to see if anyone else has a solution.
>
>This is probably only a problem for people not using focusfollowsmouse.
>I guess you'll see this both if you use sloppyfocus and clicktofocus.
>(when you can type in a window without the mouse being positioned over
>it.
This works if you use the 'S' context. It's a bit cryptic and
completely undocumented. Took me half an hour digging through
the code :-) I've added a line in the man page.
Bye
Dominik ^_^
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Received on Thu Oct 07 1999 - 23:56:21 BST