Xterms still losing focus
Xterms still losing focus
- Subject: Xterms still losing focus
- From: "Adam D. I. Kramer" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:01:57 -0700 (PDT)
Hi,
Every so often, for no discernable reason, the xterm in which I am
typing will lose focus briefly and then gain it back. It's just like the
window goes out of focus and comes back into focus a second or two later.
This is *exceptionally* annoying because any keystrokes while out of
focus are lost--that's obnoxious when writing an email like this one, but
it's really bad if, say, I begin to type my username and then lose focus and
type the last letter and hit return and then regain focus and type my
password and there it is, my password, on the screen in cleartext.
This sort of brief focus loss doesn't happen when I'm forced to
be typing in other windows...which is why I am emailing this address. The
problem is sporadic and unpredictable and I haven't yet been quick enough to
flit my eyes up to the taskbar to see whether it's another application
stealing focus or something else...but if somebody else has seen this
problem, perhaps they could fill me in?
This problem replicates at home (Mac Pro), not-at-home (Powerbook
G4), and at work (Macbook Pro), all running 10.5.8, but the problem has been
around for months through several revisions of X11. Problem occurs in 2.4.0
and has for many revisions on the xquartz site.
--Adam
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