To resurrect a fairly old thread... On Mon, 2006-Mar-27 11:23:42 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >On Sunday, 26 March 2006 at 19:17:19 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> My work system runs separate X servers on two heads (rather than >> ximerama) and I have problems with windows occasionally refusing to >> accept focus after I move the pointer from screen to screen (though >> I can get an alternative window to accept focus and then switch back >> to the window I originally wanted). This started after an X.org >> upgrade but I'm not sure which one. > >Interesting. I've seen this one too: my mail window is at the left of >the right-hand monitor on wantadilla (:0.1). Frequently when I move >from :0.0 to 0:1, the window manager will highlight the window on >:0.1, but focus remains with some window on :0.0. If I move further >right and then back again, focus catches up with the correct window.
I've been keeping a closer eye on my problem. I'm using fvwm1 with click-to-focus and lose-focus-on-screen-switch. If I move from one screen to another and quickly click on a window, the border changes colour to indicate that it has focus but keyboard input is ignored. If the target is an xterm, the cursor stays as a hollow rectangle instead of being filled - it looks like the WM knows that the window has focus but either forgets to tell the client or the client loses the message. It I leave the mouse in the target window for a while before clicking (maybe a few hundred msec) then all works correctly. I wonder if some X events are being delayed and misordered. >That's mainly irritating; the problem I describe above is annoying. Did you get anywhere in debugging it? -- Peter Jeremy
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