Interaction between multiwindow and xmouse (without autoraise)
Harold L Hunt II
huntharo@msu.edu
Wed Oct 8 13:08:00 GMT 2003
David,
Update to the latest version of XFree86-xserv. This was fixed last week.
Harold
David Corking wrote:
> I like using the xmouse feature in W2K with autoraise disabled (that
> is to say that focus follow mouse, with a click to raise.)
>
> I noticed that when I mouse over an X window, then click to raise, the
> newly raised window does not redraw portions that were overlapped by
> another X window. (I need to change focus to the overlapping window
> -A- and back to the raised window -B- to trigger the redraw. I can do
> this by mousing from B to A and back to B, or by typing Alt-Tab twice.)
>
> X is started with the distributed startxwin.bat, that is
> Xwin -multiwindow
>
> Is this a known problem (I did not see it in the docs) or have I made
> a mistake? I concede that xmouse is a relatively obscure feature in
> Win32, and I hope I explained the behavior satisfactorily.
>
> Workaround - use a native X window manager in rootless mode.
> (Preferably a wm with a click-to-raise policy similar to Win32. Now I
> have 2 places to customize the desktop and I will miss Alt-Tab :-) )
>
> David
>
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