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From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Cc: hgs@chalmers.se
Subject: Re: emacs holding focus, not granting it to xterm
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 14:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <538C8376.2090502@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53847AC8.6070000@chalmers.se>
On 27/05/2014 12:45, Hans-Georg Scherneck wrote:
> I'm running cygwin x on my laptop [version 1.7.29(0.272/5/3), Windows 7 prof], start windows on
> remote machines (cygwin and linux mint), that are exported to my laptop. I've noted the problem for
> more than a year now and it's irritating still, new versions of cygwin and applications notwithstanding.
>
> Here's what happens:
> I enter text into emacs, move mouse to an xterm, click and enter text there, but text is going into
> emacs. I can only move keyboard flow away from emacs after having done some nuisance operations in
> the emacs window, like moving around the pointer; it mostly helps with one such instance, sometimes
> I have to repeat. It's rather unpredictable. The raised status of the xterm window, however, is
> deceiving me. So text goes even into hidden emacs windows.
I can't reproduce this.
Can you be a bit more specific about how you are running the X server
(/var/log/xwin/XWin.0.log would be nice) and which window manager you
are using?
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Jon TURNEY
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-02 14:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-27 11:45 Hans-Georg Scherneck
2014-06-02 14:00 ` Jon TURNEY [this message]
2014-06-02 17:49 ` Hans-Georg Scherneck
2014-06-27 21:22 ` alflanagan
2014-06-29 13:52 ` Oliver Schmidt
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