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From: "Paul Maier" <svn-user@web.de>
To: "'cygwin-xfree'" <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Cc: "'Jon TURNEY'" <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
Subject: AW: AW: Can't paste text or type blind keys when mouse is out of the window
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:37:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <001001cc81b8$491350f0$db39f2d0$@de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E69FB99.1000608@dronecode.org.uk>


> >> I assume that you see the same behavior with other X applications, i.e. it's
> >> not xterm-specific?
> >
> > No, at least xedit works fine on my PC, with blind keys and with mouse text pasting,
> > no matter if the mouse pointer is really inside or on blue window frame or
> > (for blind keys:) really outside.
> >
> 
> Actually, maybe this is an xterm problem?
> 
> It seems to be somehow related to the xterm's --enable-toolbar configuration
> (which is turned on in the cygwin package).  If I rebuild xterm with that
> disabled, the problem goes away, and I can also reproduce the problem on F15
> under twm if I build xterm with --enable-toolbar there (which is not enabled
> in the distro supplied package)


Hi Jon,

maybe it's a workaround to include two xterm builds in the cygwin release:
one xterm compiled with --enable-toolbar and the other having it disabled.

I don't use the toolbar, so I would have the blind keys working fine at zero cost.

Paul



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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-03 10:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-07  9:06 Paul Maier
2011-09-07 12:25 ` Jon TURNEY
2011-09-08 20:53   ` AW: " Paul Maier
2011-09-09 11:42     ` Jon TURNEY
2011-10-03 10:37       ` Paul Maier [this message]
2011-10-04  0:35         ` AW: " Thomas Dickey
2011-10-05  0:54           ` AW: " Paul Maier
2011-10-05  1:00             ` Thomas Dickey
2011-10-30 23:04               ` AW: " Paul Maier
2011-10-31  3:33                 ` Thomas Dickey
2012-07-22  0:28                   ` AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: Can't paste text or type dead " Paul Maier
2012-07-23  9:01                     ` Thomas Dickey
2011-10-05 13:03             ` AW: AW: AW: Can't paste text or type blind " Jon TURNEY

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