On Thursday, 20 July 2006 at 6:31:08 -0500, Sergey Babkin wrote: >> From: Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> To resurrect a fairly old thread... >> >> On Mon, 2006-Mar-27 11:23:42 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> On Sunday, 26 March 2006 at 19:17:19 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: >>>> My work system runs separate X servers on two heads (rather than >>>> ximerama) and I have problems with windows occasionally refusing to >>>> accept focus after I move the pointer from screen to screen (though >>>> I can get an alternative window to accept focus and then switch back >>>> to the window I originally wanted). This started after an X.org >>>> upgrade but I'm not sure which one. >>> >>> Interesting. I've seen this one too: my mail window is at the left of >>> the right-hand monitor on wantadilla (:0.1). Frequently when I move >>> from :0.0 to 0:1, the window manager will highlight the window on >>> :0.1, but focus remains with some window on :0.0. If I move further >>> right and then back again, focus catches up with the correct window. >> >> I've been keeping a closer eye on my problem. I'm using fvwm1 with >> click-to-focus and lose-focus-on-screen-switch. If I move from one >> screen to another and quickly click on a window, the border changes >> colour to indicate that it has focus but keyboard input is ignored. > > This is likely an fvwm1 problem. I use it too (without > 2 monitors) and after some time something gets broken in > its focus handling, and the windows stop getting focus. > Restarting fvwm clears up the problem.
In my case, it's erratic. I suppose I could try restarting the window manager next time a window freezes. >>> That's mainly irritating; the problem I describe above is annoying. >> >> Did you get anywhere in debugging it? > > BTW, I've promised Greg a script to dump the X protocol > from binary log, then I was busy and and forgot about it. > Is there still any interest in this tool? I'd certainly be interested. It would still be a challenge to catch the event that causes the freeze, though. Are you thinking of anything that ethereal can't do? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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