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Re: my open x11 issues
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Re: my open x11 issues


  • Subject: Re: my open x11 issues
  • From: Tim Cutts <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 11:07:46 +0100
  • Mail-followup-to: Tim Cutts <email@hidden>, email@hidden

On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:16:14PM -0700, Max Waterman wrote:
>
> The usual argument against this is that, when you move the mouse out of a
> window, you lose focus
> from that app, and the desktop gets focus. This causes the top menu to
> change from that of the
> application to that of the desktop. The net result is that you can never
> access the menu of an
> application (unless the window is butted up to the menu at the top of the
> screen).

So you do what most ffm implementations do, and it's usually called
"sloppy focus".  Focus changes only when you enter a non-root window,
not when you exit the window.  To transfer focus to the desktop you'd
probably have to explicitly click, which is fair enough.

Tim

--
Dr Tim Cutts
Informatics Systems Group
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK
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References: 
 >my open x11 issues (From: "Josh Richards" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: my open x11 issues (From: Max Waterman <email@hidden>)

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