On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Dan Espen <des...@verizon.net> wrote:
> If Lenience fixes the problem, the window is not indicating that > it accepts input. > > Here's the section of the Fvwm man page: > > The ICCCM states that windows possessing the property > > WM_HINTS(WM_HINTS): > Client accepts input or input focus: False > > should not be given the keyboard input focus by the window > manager. all right, dan - thank you for this. i'm sorted (i can happily live with editing .fvwm2rc) - i've reported the bug as it turns out that there are a hell of a lot of other really weird long-standing bugs in wine related to keyboard/mouse focus being lost, so they've clearly been struggling to find this for a hell of a long time - lots of people having difficulties with applications, so the advice you gave is really helpful: let's hope the wine developers listen, eh? l.