On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 01:21:48AM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> > On 17 Aug 2002 20:43:32 +0200, Giuseppe Della Ricca wrote:
> > >
> > > I have a doubt from the man page:
> > >
> > > GrabFocus causes a newly mapped window to
> > > grab the focus, while GrabFocusOff turns
> > > this off. GrabFocus is the default for
> > > ClickToFocus windows and GrabFocusOff is the
> > > default for MouseFocus and SloppyFocus win?
> > > dows. Note that this option is switched
> > > back to the default every time you change
> > > the focus policy. You have to use it after
> > > the initial ClickToFocus/MouseFocus/Sloppy?
> > > Focus.
> > >
> > > to me (non native English) this means that if I issue:
> > >
> > > Style * ClickToFocus
> > >
> > > than I automatically get GrabFocus for free. But experimentally this is
> > > not true (new windows are not raised/don't get focus).
> > >
> > > Everything is fine if I issue:
> > >
> > > Style * ClickToFocus, GrabFocus
> > >
> > > but GrabFocus should be the default with ClickToFocus, or not ?
>
> Ah yes. I wasn't aware of the old behaviour and changed it.
> What should it do? Reset GrabFocus or leave it as it was?
well, I don't know ....
you should either revert to the old behaviour or change the man page
I'm used to the old behaviour (I immediately added GrabFocus to my Style !)
and I think that probably many people using ClickToFocus are, so ...
half a vote for the old behaviour ;-)
> > You forgot to say that you use the cvs version.
> >
> > I can reproduce this problem, i.e. ClickToFocus does not set GrabFocus,
> > although I see in the code it does set.
>
> It now only sets the default. Once GrabFocus or GrabFocusOff is
> used, the default is ignored.
>
> > There is a more serious problem. With SloppyFocus/MouseFocus, GrabFocus
> > only works now when the pointer is on the root and not in the window.
>
> I see no such problem. Can you narrow down the config to make
> this happen?
cheers,
Giuseppe.
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Received on Mon Aug 19 2002 - 04:51:22 BST