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From: klee@chico.pa.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: click to focus WM's
Keywords: focus, XSelectFocus, window manager
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Date: 27 Nov 89 19:03:00 GMT
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In article <1783@cfa241.cfa250.harvard.edu>, mvh@cfa250.harvard.edu
(Mike VanHilst) writes:
> How do I make the keyboard focus follow the pointer in this
> situation without monopolizing it? 

Section 4.1.7 of the ICCCM discusses requesting your window manager to
give one of your windows input focus.  This should work with any
ICCCM-compliant window manager.

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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