What settings do you have selected in the WindowMaker preferences? GC
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Eric Brunel <eric.bru...@pragmadev.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm currently using the latest Debian Linux distribution with WindowMaker as > my window manager and a few GNUstep applications, mainly GWorkspace and > Terminal. And I have a weird problem with the keyboard focus. The problem > seems to happen only when a window is focused automatically by WindowMaker. > In this case, most of the time, if I type a key corresponding to a menu > shortcut, the corresponding menu item will be triggered. But if the key is > not a keyboard shortcut for a menu item, it will go to the application > window normally. So for example, if I start to type 'cd' in a terminal > window, the 'c' will trigger the Edit/Copy menu item, and only the 'd' will > appear in the terminal. There doesn't seem to be any visual hint when the > problem happens, the window seems focused, with its title bar in the correct > style. And the problem does not always happen, but happens quite often > anyway. > > Usually, clicking on another window, then back on the previous one, or > playing with the window a bit will solve the problem. But if another window > is opened on top of it and then closed, the focus might get messed up again > This forces me to be very careful and test every window each time it gets > focused automatically, which is quite painful. I had the same problem after > resizing an already active window too. > > I tried changing a few WindowMaker options, like 'Do not let applications > receive the click used to focus windows' and 'Automatically focus new > windows', but whether they're checked or not, the problem still happens. > > Is there any workaround for this? Or a trick to make it work correctly? The > versions I'm using are the ones included in Debian 5.0 (lenny), which are: > WindowMaker 0.92.0 > GNUstep make 2.0.6 > GNUstep base 1.16.1 > GNUstep GUI 0.14.0 > GNUstep back 0.14 > > Thanks! > - Eric - > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep > -- Gregory Casamento - GNUstep Lead/Principal Consultant, OLC, Inc. yahoo/skype: greg_casamento, aol: gjcasa (240)274-9630 (Cell) _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep