From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 12 09:50:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA15348 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 09:50:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from watson.grauel.com (watson.grauel.com [199.233.104.36]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA15343; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 09:50:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sparcmill.grauel.com (sparcmill.grauel.com [199.233.104.34]) by watson.grauel.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA17106; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:50:00 -0500 (EST) Received: by sparcmill.grauel.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA05876; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:50:20 -0500 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:50:20 -0500 Message-Id: <199609121650.LAA05876@sparcmill.grauel.com> From: Richard J Kuhns To: dyson@freebsd.org Cc: brandon@glacier.cold.org (Brandon Gillespie), freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fvwm2 95 package and Click-To-Focus In-Reply-To: <199609121539.KAA05466@dyson.iquest.net> References: <199609121539.KAA05466@dyson.iquest.net> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John Dyson writes: > > Ok, a while back I hunted and found fvwm95 myself, compiled it, installed > > it, tweaked the settings to my preference and all is well. I just > > upgraded to 2.1.5 and installed the fvwm2 95 package, which works just > > fine with my configuration EXCEPT for some reason its defaulting to > > 'Click To Focus' and it should NOT do this! The ClickToFocus style is > > NOT enabled in my configuration (I just checked this). The one thing I > > abhore about Windows is click to focus, and I really REALLY do not want > > to have it--but for the life of me I cannot figure out how to shut if > > off--it almost looks as if it was compiled as the only way it works. > > > > Help? Who compiled this package? I would go back to my old fvwm95 > > except for I deleted it. > > > I built fvwm2-95 directly from it's distribution. One of the earlier > versions had the bug that you described. I am at work right now, but will > follow up to you with some info on the version that I am using that > does NOT have that bug. BTW, it is a really really nice WM!!! > > John > > You might also consider adding the following to your .fvwm2rc95: Style "*" SloppyFocus `SloppyFocus' is, IMHO, the best focus style yet. It's `focus follows mouse' to give focus to a window, but that window doesn't lose focus until the mouse pointer moves onto another *non-root* window. Very nice... -- Richard Kuhns rjk@grauel.com PO Box 6249 Tel: (317)477-6000 \ 100 Sawmill Road x319 Lafayette, IN 47903 (800)489-4891 /