[21809] in Athena Bugs
Re: Still having problems with mozilla
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kev)
Fri Apr 11 17:34:41 2003
Message-Id: <200304112134.RAA19562@opus.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "11 Apr 2003 14:40:08 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 17:34:39 -0400
From: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>
> There is a known bug with mozilla (actually a bug in gtk) and window
> managers which don't explicitly set the focus (instead relying on the
> server's built-in focus-follows-pointer policy), which matches the
> symptoms of being unable to type into text fields. It's conceivable
> that vtwm.gamma can be configured this way and that you have done so.
And indeed, when I tried it under sawfish, both of my mozilla problems
got solved. I have no idea why conversion of the profile would be
sensitive to the windowmanager, but...
> Munging the ACLs on a newly created .mozilla directory has not been
> considered a priority because nothing in there is considered especially
> more private than the rest of your home directory, assuming you
> password-protect your client certificates.
'k.
--
Kevin L. Mitchell <klmitch@mit.edu>
