From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 75893 invoked by alias); 23 Apr 2017 12:58:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 73018 invoked by uid 89); 23 Apr 2017 12:57:58 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=ease, accident, activation, Furthermore X-HELO: out3-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out3-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.27) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 23 Apr 2017 12:57:56 +0000 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id B89CA20AE0; Sun, 23 Apr 2017 08:57:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 23 Apr 2017 08:57:56 -0400 X-ME-Sender: Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host86-141-129-28.range86-141.btcentralplus.com [86.141.129.28]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 4A9C17E430; Sun, 23 Apr 2017 08:57:56 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Updated: xorg-server-1.19.3-1 References: Cc: Jim Reisert AD1C To: The Cygwin Mailing List From: Jon Turney Message-ID: <6287b849-c3b9-fba7-4a7a-45fa9006246e@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 22:45:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2017-04/txt/msg00298.txt.bz2 On 21/04/2017 23:54, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: >> * If I'm in an X Emacs window, then click back in my X term, the focus >> is still with the X Emacs window. > > I misspoke, and left out an important detail: > > If the windows do *not* overlap, then there appears to be no problem. > > If the XTerm window is behind the XEmacs window while I'm editing, > then I move the mouse pointer back into the Xterm, neither window has > focus. I can move the mouse pointer back into the XEmacs window to > get focus there, but I can never get focus back to the Xterm. I saw this problem with xterm, even with non-overlapping windows. Anyhow, this attempted fix wasn't right, and probably only worked for some X clients by accident. I've uploaded an xorg-server-1.19.3-2 test release, with an another attempt, perhaps you could give that a try? xorg-server-1.19.3-1 has been retroactively changed to a test release. > Furthermore, the particular Windows setting I'm using for mouse > activation is in the "Ease of Access Center", under "Make the mouse > easier to use". I have "Activate a window by hovering over it with > the mouse" checked. In addition, I'm using a Windows registry hack to > simply give the window focus without making it active, i.e. moving it > to the top: > > http://winaero.com/blog/turn-on-xmouse-active-window-tracking-focus-follows-mouse-pointer-feature-in-windows-8-1-windows-8-and-windows-7/ This is what I normally use, also. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple