Re: focus problem

[Yen-Ju Chen]

On 8/22/07, Andreas Höschler <ahoesch@smartsoft.de> wrote:
> Hi Yen-Ju,
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> >   Here is the same patch, but apply on -gui when window is closed.
> >   Therefore, it will not affect the situation when window loses focus,
> >   but not closed (application switching).
> >   The idea is the same: transfer focus to another window before it
> > gets unmapped.
> >   This patch does not fix "key focus on wrong window", "window
> > flicking", nor "menu disappear after last document minimized".
> >   It only fixes the "menu disappear after last document window closed".
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> I see. However, this problem does not occur under Window Maker anyway
> (even without your gui patch) and got fixed under Azalea with my little
> application-aware fix posted a few days ago.

  Well, it does not happen in WindowMaker because WindowMaker knows
the internal of GNUstep.
  What I try to do is to have GNUstep work better with general window
manager so people can choose their preferred window manager.
  Your patch does not work for me as
  my previous patch on back does not work for you
  because it is a racing issue.
  I would prefer to fix the source of problem instead of hoping one
action is faster than the other.
  So you can try the latest patch on -gui and see whether it helps.

  Yen-Ju

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> So here we have what is left:
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> • flickering in overlapping windows when switching between applications
> (does only occur in Azalea, not Window Maker)
> •menu disappears after last document is mimimized (does not occur
> under Window Maker, probably fixed in Azalea with my application-aware
> hack)
> • garbage characters at the end of window titles in Azalea
> •switching applications with launchApplication: does not set key focus
> correctly, at least not if the target application is already running.
> Switching with the Window Maker Dock does work, so some extra magic
> seems to be in charge here
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> Any ideas?
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> Regards,
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>    Andreas
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