Focus problems after GNOME update

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 10:33 +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> after the update to 2.12 I restarted gdm and logged in. I'm using sawfish
> instead of metacity. At first it was nice, but then I noticed that there's a
> problem with the focus (I think).
> 
> The problem: when I click with a mouse button in some gtk widgets (for
> example changing some GNOME settings), I'm not able anymore to change
> anything after one or two clicks. The clicks doesn't seem to reach the
> window anymore and the focus doesn't follows the mouse. Keyboard input still
> goes to the window with the focus. When I switch to another desktop I can do
> 1-2 clicks again, but then I have to change to another virtual desktop
> again.
> 
> I just noticed this yesterday in the evening and didn't do anything after
> noticing it. Did someone else notice the same behavior?
> 
> Doing the ovious -- switching to metacity, moving the configuration somewhere
> else to start with a clean desktop-config, looking for dependencies which
> where forgotten to be rebuild -- is on my TODO list.

I seem to recall hearing about this a long time ago as being a known
issue with sawfish.  I'm certainly not seeing it with metacity.

Joe

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