FFM problem
FFM problem
- Subject: FFM problem
- From: Robin Sommer <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:41:57 -0700
I'm having a problem with focus-follows-mouse, and I'm wondering
whether anybody here might have an idea. FFM works fine for me when
moving the pointer over from one X11 window to another. It does not
however if initially some non-X11 window (say, Safari) is activated
and I then move the pointer from there to an X11 window. This is
with XQuartz 2.4.1_alpha3 but I have seen the same with earlier
versions as well.
While generally I would think that perhaps FFM does simply not
support this case at the moment, the odd thing is that the X11
window does seem to get activated, it just does not receive the
keyboard focus. For example, urxvt grays out all the text in a
terminal window when the window is deactivated but when I move the
mouse pointer from Safari back to such a deactivated urxvt window,
it visually returns to the activated state. It does however not get
the keyboard focus: before I can start typing I need to click first.
This discrepancy between visual feeback and keyboard is very
confusing.
To investigate this further, I tried it with xev. Let's say I'm in
Safari first and then move the mouse pointer over to the xev window:
xev then gets EnterNotify, KeymapNotify, FocusIn, and also
MotionNotify for every further pointer move. It does however not
receive any KeyPress/Release events until I click.
I find this behaviour quite annoying as I keep typing into the wrong
window, and so I'm wondering if there's any way to have the X11
window to directly receive the keyboard focus as well.
Thanks,
Robin
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