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: "Ambrose Li" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:12:23 -0500
On 29/11/2007, Robert T Wyatt <email@hidden> wrote:
> Andrew J. Hesford wrote:
> > You should always be able to mouse over the window to type into it.
>
> <.02>
> This may be some well-proven axiom in some RFC somewhere, but
> it doesn't work for me. I frequently move the cursor "out of
> the way" which puts it over some other (random) window. Having
> my keystrokes going into the wrong window..., well, that's
> what this is all about isn't it? If I put my cursor aside so
> that I can use the keyboard to manipulate my application, I
> don't wish to be concerned about where it has been moved aside
> to, I wish to keep my brain focused on the current app without
> the computer deciding that the focus should change. Yes you
> could argue that I moved the cursor so the computer is doing
> what I ask, but I'm saying that that is not what I'm asking
> and I don't wish to change this work flow habit.
> </.02>
You are talking about different things. Andrew is talking about
the (very rare) scenario where there is NO window manager. This
happens only during, for example, an xdmcp login, or if the
window manager crashes (e.g., due to a bug).
In normal situations, the focus policy depends on the window
manager, and (usually) your own preference. In the case of MacOS
X, usually this is quartz-wm whose focus policy is (AFAIK) not
configurable, and so if something strange like this (i.e., not
supposed to be supported by quartz-wm) happens I would say that
this counts as a quartz-wm bug.
--
cheers,
-ambrose
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