[5238] in Athena Bugs
vax 7.0F: mwm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dcc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Jun 21 14:36:49 1990
From: dcc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 90 11:26:30 EDT
System name: thanatos
Type and version: DS3100 /mit/x11r4/decmipsbin/Xcfbpmax
/mit/motifdev/decmipsbin/mwm
Display type: CFB
What were you trying to do?
tailor the user interface
What's wrong:
In my .mwmrc I have the lines
<Btn2Down> frame f.minimize
<Btn2Down> icon f.normalize
When I press button 2 down in the frame or icon the correct action
occurs, but mwm fails to grab the subsequent button up event.
As a result, the button up event is delivered to whatever the pointer
happens to be pointing to, which is not the window or icon origionally
clicked upon.
This is a severe problem if the button up
event is delivered to an xterm, since a button up event in an xterm
means paste. The result is likely random text being dumped
into the xterm.
What should have happened:
Mwm should use a grab or maintain a grab such that the button up
event is obsorbed.
I have worked around the problem by using the lines
<Btn2Click> frame f.minimize
<Btn2Click> icon f.normalize
insted. The resulting behavior is slitely different, but I can
live with it.
