Re: AW: AW: SV: focus failure with x11 and Mac OS X 10.5
Re: AW: AW: SV: focus failure with x11 and Mac OS X 10.5
- Subject: Re: AW: AW: SV: focus failure with x11 and Mac OS X 10.5
- From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:44:16 +0100 (CET)
+ Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>:
> > The default focus model for X11, without a window manager, is to
> > focus the window under the cursor.
>
> No, that's not true.
Yes, it is. (... queue Monty Python theme music ...)
> If that's happening, then you have a window manager. If you can
> move windows at all, then you have a window manager.
Ah. But he wasn't talking about moving windows: He's talking about
what happens when the mouse cursor moves into or out of windows.
> Try running X on a *nix box which uses X11 as its windowing system
> with just 'exec xterm' in your .xsession or .xinitrc to see what no
> window-manager looks like.
Been there, done that. It is the same thing that happens with the
failsafe login which is typically provided to deal with a situation
when you messed up your .xinitrc or .xsession.
You get one xterm, usually but not necessarily sitting in the upper
left corner of the screen. Place the mouse cursor within it, and you
can type some text. Move it outside, and you can no longer type into
the xterm. You can start more xterms, using the -geometry argument to
avoid placing them on top of the first one. And then you can move the
mouse cursor about in order to decide which window gets the input.
- Harald
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