[mythtv] Window focus problems (was: Using KDE Window Manager, how to remove toolbars)

[Michael D. Cencula]

I've done some more looking into this trying to understand the behavior and 
here's what I've found.  Mythtv works fine and there are no focus issues when 
using the keyboard only.  Using lirc, however, gives the following results:

Use remote to select "watch recordings" -> brings up the "Select a recording 
to view" dialog.
Use remote to select a recording and start watching it.
Use remote to exit recording (irxevent sends an Escape to CurrentWindow).

at this point, the "Select a recording to view" dialog is in front, but it 
does not have the focus.  This is evident by the column headings titled 
"Date" and "Title" are a subdued shade of blue...not the bright blue when the 
window is focused.  If I hit the up and down arrows on the keyboard, the 
selection bar will move from program to program...but the up and down arrows 
on the remote do nothing.  Also, if I hit alt-tab once, the application 
selector that pops up in the middle of the screen will highlight 
mythfrontend<2>, which is the "Select a recording to view" dialog.  That 
tells me that the other window named mythfrontend was active until I hit 
alt-tab.  When I release the alt-tab, the "Date" and "Title" column headings 
become bright blue and the remote works in this dialog once more.

Here's some speculation from a non-programmer:
I've looked at the irxevent code and it seems to use some functions like 
XGetInputFocus() to find out what window to send the keypress characters to.  
Since the MythTV menu window (Watch TV, Schedule a Recording, Watch 
Recordings, etc) has the same name as the "Select a recording to view" dialog 
(they're both called mythfrontend), I wonder if lirc (irxevent, actually) is 
selecting the wrong window to send the kepress characters to.  If so, could 
this problem be solved by changing the name of the "Select a recording to 
view" dialog?

If I knew more about programming, I'd try to make some code changes to test 
this theory out, but unfortunately I'm not that proficient.

Let me know if I can do anything else to help track this down.

Mike

On Wednesday 26 February 2003 22:43, Michael D. Cencula wrote:
> I've got this same problem in KDE 3.0 using the click to focus method.
>
> On Monday 24 February 2003 00:42, David Madsen wrote:
> > Using focus policy 'Click to Focus'.  AFAIK that is the correct method to
> > use right?
> >
> > Dave Madsen
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Isaac Richards" <ijr at po.cwru.edu>
> > To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
> > Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 2:59 PM
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Using KDE Window Manager, how to remove
> > toolbars
> >
> > > On Sunday 23 February 2003 02:23 pm, David Madsen wrote:
> > > > Thats really strange.. I have this exact problem with KDE. ;)  After
> > > > watching a video, and exiting using the remote, the mythfrontend that
> >
> > lists
> >
> > > > all the shows is now longer in focus.  What ver of KDE are you
> > > > running? Maybe that might be the difference, since i'm running KDE
> > > > 2.2 from the debian unstable release..
> > >
> > > Using what focus method?
> > >
> > > Isaac
> > >
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