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To: Sudish Joseph <sj@eng.mindspring.net>
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Subject: Re: XEmacs 19.16-b91 w/ Lesstif 0.80
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From: wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)
Date: 04 Sep 1997 07:38:50 -0700
In-Reply-To: Sudish Joseph's message of "03 Sep 1997 18:53:05 -0400"
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Sudish Joseph <sj@eng.mindspring.net> writes:

> William M Perry writes:
> >   And you typically cannot send keyboard events while your mouse is in the
> > menubar area, at least under Linux w/MetroX or XFree86
> 
> Thanks for isolating the causes of this, it's been driving me nuts.
> Actually, what I see is much worse: no keyboard events if the mouse is 
> outside of the app window, period.
> 
> This might be window manager lossage (I'm using WindowMaker, which I
> think William is using as well) in ClickToFocus mode.  I switched to
> ClickToFocus and WM primarily because it has better support for
> next_window/prev_window from the keyboard than any fvwm derivative,
> among other features.  So, the above problem is doubly galling as it
> renders the keyboard accelerator useless most of the time.

  This happens to me with WindowMaker, FVWM, or MLVWM (a macintosh-like
window manager -ugh!).  Just more datapoints.

-Bill P.

