[mythtv-users] Mythvideo exits back to desktop
Joseph A. Caputo
jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Wed Nov 5 10:11:36 EST 2003
Top-posting fixed.
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 05:07, James L. Paul wrote:
> > Torsten Schenkel wrote:
> > >On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 09:06, James L. Paul wrote:
> > >>I had this problem with gnome/metacity also, even with my focus
> > >> settings set properly to 'click to focus'.
> > >
> > >Isn't this supposed to be "focus follows mouse"?
> > >
> > >Torsten
> > >
> > >
>
> On Tuesday 04 November 2003 23:18, Christian Husemann - PTS EMEA
> Storage
>
> Engineer - Cluster wrote:
> > This is defintly users choice.
>
> That's not my understanding. I was told by multiple people that for
> irxevent focus to properly return to mythvideo the focus policy must
> _not_ be set to 'focus follows mouse'. Something with having to do
> with the interation of the code that sets focus by raising the window
> and the window manager settings.
>
> If it's really user's choice and doesn't matter, that's news to me. I
> got lazy and instead of fixing the problem I just stopped using
> metacity and switched to a much lighter window manager. I'm just
> echoing what I was told by JAC and others.
Yeah, I'm sure there must be a way to get the right behavior in KDE or
Gnome/Metacity, but the path of least resistance certainly seems to be
to use a lightweight WM like FVWM or Blackbox. I don't think I've ever
heard of someone on this list having a focus problem with either of
those.
-JAC
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