Re: X11 blinking cursor in text window like 'gvim' - only halts if moved-over another X11-win

2021-06-16 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/04/08 04:19, Andrey Repin wrote: It has it in every version starting Windows 95/NT4. @Linda: try http://joelpurra.com/Projects/X-Mouse_Controls/ --- Just had the occasion to need it, since had to re-inst W7. Unfortunately, it immediately dumps core. Very odd. Dependency walker tries

Re: X11 blinking cursor in text window like 'gvim' - only halts if moved-over another X11-win

2021-04-15 Thread Achim Gratz
Andrey Repin writes: >> Windows never had "focus follows mouse" in any version I can remember. > > It has it in every version starting Windows 95/NT4. The last time I tried it it didn't quite work, though. Specifically it does "focus strictly follows mouse" and it had problems with raising unwant

Re: X11 blinking cursor in text window like 'gvim' - only halts if moved-over another X11-win

2021-04-11 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/04/11 07:33, Jon Turney wrote: On 10/04/2021 22:37, L A Walsh wrote: On 2021/04/10 12:14, L A Walsh wrote: On 2021/04/09 07:41, Jon Turney wrote: I think so, yes. === That's unfortunate. Well, I wasn't sure if it was new or old. At least its not some new problem. Sigh.

Re: X11 blinking cursor in text window like 'gvim' - only halts if moved-over another X11-win

2021-04-11 Thread Jon Turney
On 10/04/2021 22:37, L A Walsh wrote: On 2021/04/10 12:14, L A Walsh wrote: On 2021/04/09 07:41, Jon Turney wrote: I think so, yes. === That's unfortunate.  Well, I wasn't sure if it was new or old. At least its not some new problem.  Sigh. Thanks for the backstory. [1] https://sour

Re: X11 blinking cursor in text window like 'gvim' - only halts if moved-over another X11-win

2021-04-11 Thread Jon Turney
On 09/04/2021 16:12, Thomas Wolff wrote: See [1] et seq. for a discussion of what I think is the same problem, where the Cygwin X server doesn't notify X windows of a focus loss when the focus moves to a non-X window. Hmm, when I start xterm -bc and click out of xterm (e.g. mintty or Thunderb

Re: X11 blinking cursor in text window like 'gvim' - only halts if moved-over another X11-win

2021-04-10 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/04/09 08:12, Thomas Wolff wrote: Hmm, when I start xterm -bc and click out of xterm (e.g. mintty or Thunderbird), the cursor stops blinking for me. --- That's the key difference "click out of xterm" -- in pointer follows focus, no clicking is used. The active window becomes the one u

Re: X11 blinking cursor in text window like 'gvim' - only halts if moved-over another X11-win

2021-04-10 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/04/10 12:14, L A Walsh wrote: On 2021/04/09 07:41, Jon Turney wrote: I think so, yes. === That's unfortunate. Well, I wasn't sure if it was new or old. At least its not some new problem. Sigh. Thanks for the backstory. [1] https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/

Re: X11 blinking cursor in text window like 'gvim' - only halts if moved-over another X11-win

2021-04-10 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/04/09 07:41, Jon Turney wrote: I think so, yes. === That's fine, I guess I hadn't noticed it before -- had about 3-X and maybe 2 native and couldn't figure out why I occasionally had typing going to the wrong window when I realized I had been relying on the blinking for the a

Re: X11 blinking cursor in text window like 'gvim' - only halts if moved-over another X11-win

2021-04-09 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 09.04.2021 um 16:41 schrieb Jon Turney: On 07/04/2021 01:27, L A Walsh wrote: I don't recall this always being this way as I keep running into a problem with my input going into the wrong window. I've noted I seem to be relying on which editor(i.e. gvim) window in X11 has focus by noting th

Re: X11 blinking cursor in text window like 'gvim' - only halts if moved-over another X11-win

2021-04-09 Thread Jon Turney
On 07/04/2021 01:27, L A Walsh wrote: I don't recall this always being this way as I keep running into a problem with my input going into the wrong window. I've noted I seem to be relying on which editor(i.e. gvim) window in X11 has focus by noting that it has a blinking square cursor in the win

Re: X11 blinking cursor in text window like 'gvim' - only halts if moved-over another X11-win

2021-04-08 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Achim Gratz! > L A Walsh writes: >> If I move the windows cursor to another editor window in X11, >> the blinking cursor moves to the new window, but if I move >> it to a native window, the blinking doesn't stop. >> >> Has this always been this way? > Windows never had "focus follows m

RE: X11 blinking cursor in text window like 'gvim' - only halts if moved-over another X11-win

2021-04-08 Thread Lemke, Michael SF/HZA-ZIC2
On April 7, 2021 8:47 PM Achim Gratz wrote: >L A Walsh writes: >> If I move the windows cursor to another editor window in X11, >> the blinking cursor moves to the new window, but if I move >> it to a native window, the blinking doesn't stop. >> >> Has this always been this way? > >Windows never ha

Re: X11 blinking cursor in text window like 'gvim' - only halts if moved-over another X11-win

2021-04-08 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/04/07 11:46, Achim Gratz wrote: L A Walsh writes: If I move the windows cursor to another editor window in X11, the blinking cursor moves to the new window, but if I move it to a native window, the blinking doesn't stop. Has this always been this way? Windows never had "focus

Re: X11 blinking cursor in text window like 'gvim' - only halts if moved-over another X11-win

2021-04-07 Thread Achim Gratz
L A Walsh writes: > If I move the windows cursor to another editor window in X11, > the blinking cursor moves to the new window, but if I move > it to a native window, the blinking doesn't stop. > > Has this always been this way? Windows never had "focus follows mouse" in any version I can remembe