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From: montnaro@sprite.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: xnews and X -- input focus problem
Message-ID: <MONTNARO.89Nov16122704@sprite.crd.ge.com>
Date: 16 Nov 89 17:27:04 GMT
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In-reply-to: news@bellcore.bellcore.com's message of 16 Nov 89 03:48:20 GMT

The incompatibility between X/NeWS (with its ICCCM-compliant window manager
and toolkit) and older X applications is getting rather well-known these
days. Another person here at GE CRD just posted a note about this problem to
comp.windows.x. I've reproduced it below. Placing "*Input: true" in
.Xdefaults worked for me, at least it cured xdvi's problems. I haven't had
the opportunity to try other applications yet. Apparently Phil tried xfig,
xdbx, and xman, however.


  From shaffer@athena.crd.ge.com Wed Nov 15 17:13:12 1989
  Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
  Reply-To: shaffer@crd.ge.com (Phillip L. Shaffer)
  Organization: General Electric Corp. R&D, Schenectady, NY
  From: shaffer@athena.crd.ge.com
  Subject: Re: Has anyone fixed xfig and xdbx to work with Open Windows?
  Date: 15 Nov 89 17:37:30 GMT



  A couple of days ago I posted this query.  I got one response which
  didn't answer the question, but a couple of other messages posted
  gave me the information to do what I wanted.

  There are two ways:

  1) Fixes the problem in general (works for xfig, xdbx, and xman, at least):
     add to your ~/.Xdefaults file the line:
	*Input: true
     and restart xnews.

  2) Patch the source code for xfig and xdbx (I tried xman and couldn't find
     the right place). In xdbx, patch the file windows.c thus:

  120a121,129
  >     /* ask window manager for input focus: */
  >     {
  >       XWMHints wmhints;
  >       wmhints = XGetWMHints((XtDisplay(vpane), XtWindow(vpane));
  >       wmhints.input = True;
  >       wmhints.flags = InputHint;
  >       XSetWMHints(XtDisplay(vpane), XtWindow(vpane), &wmhints);
  >     }
  > 

    In xfig, patch main.c similarly, after (around line 333) "XtRealizeWidget(tool);" only change "vpane" above to "tool".

       Phillip L. Shaffer                        shaffer@crd.ge.com
       GE Corporate Research & Development       uunet!crd.ge.com!shaffer
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       P.O. Box 8, Schenectady NY 12301

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