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From: lac@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Les Carr)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: xnews and X -- input focus problem
Message-ID: <1651@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: 17 Nov 89 10:58:08 GMT
References: <18212@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Organization: University of Southampton, UK
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news@bellcore.bellcore.com (news) writes:

>I'm prevented from running xnews full-time by the following problem: I
>can't get keyboard information to some Xt applications.    The two
>applications both respond fine to mouse input, but this is not
>sufficient.  One of them is the "xdvi" program -- if that helps.  The
>applications and the server are running on the same Sun-4 running
>4.0.3c. Both applications use the Athena Widget set.

I have had similar problems at our site. We are running xnews on a SUN4/110
with a CLX client on a remote 3/60. The problem is that output windows
are fine, but key press/release events don't get from the X-server to the
CLX process.  Further investigation reveals that it isn't possible
to `focus' the X-server's keyboard onto a window thrown up by
the remote client on the server's display.  With the current focus
set to the new window, mouse button events travel fine, but when
you hit keys they appear in the last window you had selected, not
the one in focus!

Any clues would be very very very welcome indeed!
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L.Carr@ecs.soton.ac.uk               Les Carr
Tel: +44 703 593649                  Dept of Electronics and Computer Science
Fax: +44 703 593939                  University of Southampton
Telex: 47661 SOTONU G                Southampton  SO9 5NH  England
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L.Carr@ecs.soton.ac.uk               Les Carr
Tel: +44 703 593649                  Dept of Electronics and Computer Science
Fax: +44 703 593939                  University of Southampton
Telex: 47661 SOTONU G                Southampton  SO9 5NH  England