X with no windowmanager uses mouseover focusing. You have to put the mouse cursor over the place you are trying to type, then it should work.
On 22 Oct 2001 15:15:04 -0400, Grant McDorman wrote: > This probably wouldn't work very well, if at all. If the application has any > dialogs at > all, they'll come up without borders or titles; worse, you won't be able to > type into them. > > There might be problems with keyboard focus in the main window as well. > > Mandrake 8.1 has this problem; the first time a newly-created user signs on > (with X) on that system, a setup program is run *before* any window manager. > Some of it wants text input; the first time I ran it, I was unable to enter > any text whatsoever. > > You are better off running at least a small window manager, such as twm. > > According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > This is a very interesting possibility. > > > > Could you please tell me more about how this might be done? > > > > Cheers, > > Lonnie > > > > Quoting guillermo pastor torrente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Hello, > > > I would rather launch the application with no windowmanager- The only > > > issue would be to pass the -geometry option properly to match the size > > > of the Xsvc used.- Hope it helps! > > -- > > Grant McDorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sr. Software Design Consultant > Cedara Software Corp. <URL:http://www.cedara.com> > (formerly I.S.G. Technologies Inc.) > Mississauga, Ontario, Canada > > [demime 0.97b removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: > 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY > See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
