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From: Scott Merrilees <scott@merrilees.net>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: startx - no keyboard or mouse focus with single xterm, repeatable error
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 06:06:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANN7Ug2ELP+0ZZJdEiHtxi6Ju=NREkiov7ay4qi-Di1vwW8ntg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

I upgraded yesterday, and am similarly afflicted

Thanks Patrick for a workaround, +200+200 works for me.

Mario's suggestion of startxwin doesn't solve the problem because
startxwin doesn't allow single root window mode.

Another minimal way to demonstrate the problem:

     DISPLAY=:0; export DISPLAY
     XWin &
     twm &

notice that twm doesn't have focus, and pressing button1 on the root
window doesn't show a menu.
Howewver if you then force twm to ask where to place a window by doing:

     xclock &

then once the window has been placed I can see the button1 menu, and
subsequent xterms etc work properly.

When I tried fvwm as an alternative window manager, it worked ok.
--
Scott Merrilees

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             reply	other threads:[~2012-06-14  6:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-14  6:06 Scott Merrilees [this message]
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2012-04-30  8:53 Patrick Hogan

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