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From: koreth@panarthea.EBay.Sun.COM (Steven Grimm)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Another R5 wish
Summary: Fix input focusing!
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Date: 31 Aug 90 07:37:44 GMT
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This may not be a problem with R4 per se, but here's something I find very
annoying.

I use a machine with 8 megabytes of RAM.  I use twm (actually vtwm, but the
same thing happened with standard twm) with several xterm windows.  Naturally,
the xterms get swapped out when I don't use them for a while.  When I move the
mouse pointer from an active xterm window to one of the swapped-out windows
and start typing, input goes to the window that I WAS on until the new window
comes in from disk.  So, essentially, there seems to be very poor handling of
input focus movement.  I notice that under Sunview, the problem doesn't
happen.  The input events seem to get queued up until the new window is able
to handle them, and I get a spurt of characters in the window.

This may be a problem with twm; I haven't used other window managers enough
to experience the problem.  (Yeah, I know, I should be using olwm, considering
where I work.  Olwm has, um, other problems with input focusing. :)

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