Programs not accepting input?

[Mike Meyer]

In <20060328011345.GC25392 at wantadilla.lemis.com>, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at freebsd.org> typed:
> > The focus management and the highlighting of the window manager
> > decoration are not physically connected in any way, so a bug in the
> > window manager might cause it to do the highlighting but forget to
> > give the focus to the application.
> But mouse focus and keyboard focus are the same, right?

There isn't a "mouse focus". Mouse events are tied to window they
happen in, not the one with focus. If you use a window manager that
doesn't change the keyboard focus on mouse events, it's possible to
have mouse events happen in a window that doesn't have the focus.

	<mike
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