Re: New user, Focus issues

[Alex Perez]

Michael Reid wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm just getting into this GNUstep thing, and so far its great. I tried 
> GNUstep a few years back; some compile issues and a lack of time on my 
> part to "get it" sent me back to GNOME/Xfce.
>
> I'm giving it another go and I'm realy impressed with the amount of work 
> thats been done since then. I really like the work flow of GNUstep so 
> far. Great job to everyone involved.
>
>  GNUstep->users++;
>
> I am having one problem though. There seems to be some focus issues with 
> keyboard shortcuts. Maybe this is a window manager thing, but I'm using 
> WindowMaker which I expect would play nice w/ GNUstep. Anyhow, the 
> problem is this: When I use a shortcut (e.g. Mod-c for copy) then the 
> window that has focus no longer responds to keyboard input. Usually this 
> can be solved by giving another window focus and then coming back, but 
> sometimes its really stubborn and I have to go through some sequence of 
> random events in order to get the window to accept keyboard input again.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this? I don't expect 
> this to be an app-specific problem, as it occurs with TextEdit, 
> Addresses, GNUMail, and others.
>
> I am using manual (click-to-focus) with WindowMaker, as I found that 
> focus-follows-mouse caused even more problems.

Hm, strange...which version of WindowMaker are you using?