On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 09:53:03AM -0400, Thomas Gardiner wrote:
> For me, I can move my cursor over the root window or any other window and
> my key bindings for switching pages return (I use focuss follows mouse),
> so it's really a question of the application getting in the way.
Hm, so the application seems to have grabbed the key on its window
and fvwm has grabbed it everywhere else. I have to look this up
in the X manuals.
> Dominik, one thing I have noticed is that it does not occur like this all
> of the time. Sometimes my key bindings work, while other times they
> don't. It seems to be related to where the program is in handling
> switching modes, or saving... basically whether it is accepting input.
> Unfortunately, it seems a bit tricky to make it occur on will.
It may be important if you start OpenOffice first or fvwm. After
an fvwm restart things may look very differently. In X it's just
first come - first serve: whoever requests the grab first gets
it.
> Silly question... Could it be the focus policy?
No, that has nothing to do with it. Focus policy affects only
mouse button handling.
> Sometimes it seems as if
> no window has focus. Can this occur, and will fvwm cope properly?
> > > The same hapens with Gnome. It's pretty annoying, and I have no
> > > idea how some applications manage to do this. Fvwm grabs the key
> > > combinations on the root window and any further grabs by the
> > > applications should fail. Yet, they still manage to do this.
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Received on Thu Aug 29 2002 - 09:05:34 BST