Firefox and Thunderbird annoyance in TWM

[John Wynstra]

I have FreeBSD 7.0 running on a PC at home which was formerly running 
Windows XP until I couldn't stand it anymore.  I had both of the latest 
Thunderbird and Firefox installed on it as my mail application and web 
browser.  Unfortunately I am unemployed so I was in the habit of using 
Dice via Thunderbird which when I double clicked the job advertisements 
would bring up the appropriate Firefox window auto magically.  This is 
now broken.  I don't know why but it is annoying.  I thought it might be 
the pointer follows mouse focus policy but I was wrong.  That is the 
default focus policy under my window manager (twm).  BTW I had thought I 
was running fvwm instead of twm but evidently I was wrong in selecting 
the location of one of the initialization files.  I use startx to start 
X11.  An odd thing is that if I double click within Firefox as for 
instance when I am managing my bookmarks file it will raise the screen 
selected.  It is only when I double click from Thunderbird that this is 
broken.  Once in a while an odd thing like when moving the mouse over 
one window will raise another in addition to changing focus.  Another 
annoyance.

-- John <jwynstra at nyc.rr.com>