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From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Cc: jsteed@gedae.com Subject: Re: How to disable focus stealing prevention in XWin Xorg Multi-Window Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:09:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <5087E89C.1040508@dronecode.org.uk> (raw) In-Reply-To: <CAJ4VNHXV47QS1FgU4C79iD=G8ZBB5Bp5o7r2TWRxB95AqtAY8g@mail.gmail.com> On 18/10/2012 17:26, Jim Steed wrote: > I have an X windows program that uses multiple windows and has buttons > to bring up the other windows to the top. These buttons don't work > (have no effect) in the default settings of Cygwin's Xorg port due to > "focus stealing prevention." I'm afraid your diagnosis is incorrect. It's a long-standing defect in multiwindow mode that no attempt is made to synchronize changes in the X window Z-order (e.g. made by XRaiseWindow()) to the native Windows window Z-order. See, for example [1] for some discussion about why this isn't easy to fix. > I have a little background with this in Linux as I know the magic in > KDE to disable focus stealing prevention and get these buttons to > work. Is there a similar setting I can make to XWin Server's > startxwin.exe to disable this? > > I have noted that twm and WindowMaker do not prevent focus stealing, > and my program works fine in those window managers. However, for look > and feel, I would much prefer it to closer integrated into Microsoft > Windows with the multi-window approach. [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2011-08/msg00034.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-24 13:09 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top [not found] <CAJ4VNHUjqguSbpvpi==ykX+qMJ9G=H5wi8ybZV-K3o9uhvrE6g@mail.gmail.com> [not found] ` <CAJ4VNHXONcxkC6Eie8eW1AjUq9WFxhpFKiJ2xpvz8DSaNXZ_Gw@mail.gmail.com> 2012-10-18 16:26 ` Jim Steed 2012-10-24 13:09 ` Jon TURNEY [this message]
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