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Re: Time to gather my thoughts about Redhat-4.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kyle Ferrio)
Mon Oct 21 18:24:53 1996
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 16:22:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kyle Ferrio <kbf@phy.duke.edu>
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On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Tim Baverstock wrote:
> Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com> wrote:
> > "Randy D. Smith" <smithrd@KEPLER.COVENANT.EDU> wrote:
>
> > >Why do I loose click focus ability under fvwm95, FORCING me to go to the
> > >task bar to activate a window?? I can't see any pattern to it happening,
> > >other than having been logged in "a long time" before it happens.
> >
> > I have *no* idea on this one.
> >
>
> I don't know why you'd get this either; I get it with my archaic 1.2.5
> every-so-often, and only worked out to `Restart fvwm' after several months
> of shutting X down to solve it. :)
Are you guys using XF86 or Metro-X when this happens?
If I understand this thread, the loss of click-to-change focus is a
"well-known" problem with fvwm before 2.0. I don't know about 2.0 and later.
At one time, I was collecting a database of user reports, but never got
enough to make any solid conclusions. As I recall, as of late 1995 the
problem seemed to be limited to the S3 chipset. I got several dozen
reports, but none for any other chipset. This led me to suspect that the
XF86 S3 server *might* be a suspect.
RedHat users might want to use Metro-X over XF86 and see if the problem
reoccurs. I would be interested to learn of this problem occuring under
Metro-X, as that would implicate fvwm again.
Kyle Ferrio
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