Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!aurora!geof
From: geof@aurora.com (Geoffrey H. Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Wishlist for R5
Summary: Keyboard tracks applications switches
Message-ID: <1990Jul11.191122.29222@aurora.com>
Date: 11 Jul 90 19:11:22 GMT
Reply-To: geof@aurora.UUCP (Geoffrey H. Cooper)
Organization: The Aurora Group, Palo Alto, CA
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My guess is that this is ingrained deep inside the X structure, so it
isn't easily fixed, but from the point of view of being a USER of X:

Make the focus under TWM be synchronous with the mouse movements, so
that type-ahead ends up in the right window.  Currently, you can move
your mouse over into a swapped-out application that takes a few
seconds to get swapped in and take the keyboard focus. If you type
during that time, the keystrokes will often get put in the previous
application (which is usually an editor and screws up your buffer --
good thing Emacs has UNDO).  [maybe the problem is TWM itself getting
swapped out]

- Geof
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