Just want to mention that the problem of window focus, raise, and stacking
order, described in the message 2004-03/msg00849.htm, followed up by Earle and
Takuma, is still present in the current xwin server (6.7.0.0-4) in multiwindow
mode. Has Earle's proposed fix been incorporated in the latest
Earle,
Thank you for inspecting the bug. I know my recent changes for
window manipulation is rather heuristic; they just happen to fix
bugs but have no right reason, so they often cause other bugs
on other places. I must learn the whole event cycle of windows
in both Windows and X with a book
I have discovered what I believe to be a bug in the window manager code
part of the cygwin/X server. It is an interaction between the
point-to-focus setting in Windows (a.k.a. Activation follows mouse in
TweakUI) and raising windows.
Scenario:
With the Activation follows mouse (X-Mouse) setting
Hi Harold, Takuma, Brian,
I have commited a 1-line fix (ok, 2 with comments) for this: when a
WM_WM_ACTIVATE is received by the winmultiwindowwm.c local event processor
call the X restacker. I tested it and it fixes this (under the X-mouse in
XP's TweakUI, can't test under 98 or 2K ) and it also