serious (for me) Xorg 7.5 mouse/kbd problem in 8.1-STABLE
Warren Block
wblock at wonkity.com
Thu Aug 26 13:32:57 UTC 2010
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, William Bulley wrote:
> In my use of open-motif, I use and depend on mouse focus.
...
> Nothing has changed. When I run open-motif, I still experience
> the crippling loss of mouse focus when I enter the sequence
> Shift/Btn3Click.
...
> Shift <Btn3Click> window f.minimize
>
> Since TWM works and the xterms therein also work just fine, I
> doubt that xterm is at fault. I also hold open-motif blameless
> since it has not changed in years. I think something in Xorg
> or one of its support modules is not properly registering the
> Shift/Btn3Click event to the xorg-server, or that xorg-server
> has changed so that this particular event causes my pointer
> focus to disappear.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't know how to track down this bug or to
> narrow the search for what changed. I was hoping someone in
> FreeBSD-land would have some suggestions. I have heard that
> contacting the Xorg developers may not result in a timely
> resolution. I greatly appreciate the comments on -questions
> to date. Thanks guys.
It's worth checking with the open-motif port maintainer. Also worth
posting on the xorg mailing list.
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