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From: igl@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Ian Glendinning)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Help, I can't get input focus under olwm
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Date: 17 Dec 90 18:33:14 GMT
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In <1990Dec13.221949.583@agate.berkeley.edu> dc@caveat.berkeley.edu (Dave Cottingham) writes:

>I have run into a peculiar problem using my favorite X application,
>XCONQ, on my shiny new Sparcstation.  I can't direct the input focus
>to XCONQ's window.  This is true whether the client is running on the
>Sparcstation or elsewhere (like the VAX downstairs), and the client
>works fine when the window is on any other server I've tried.  Can
>anyone give a hint what the problem is?  Anyone seen this before?
>Could someone tell me how a window manager decides if a window should
>be allowed to take input focus? (yes, I'm that clueless)

Try putting the line:

OpenWindows.FocusLenience: true

in your .Xdefaults file.  I had a similar problem running a program on
my SPARC station under openwindows, which worked fine under other
versions of X.  Local experts informed me that the problem is most
likely to do with not enforcing the ICCCM requirement that windows
must have the input hint set in order to receive the focus.
Apparently, many X11R3 clients don't bother to set this hint.  Hope
this helps.
    Ian
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