Curious desktop behaviour
I have two systems running SuSE 9.2. One is a notebook and the other a desktop system. One thing I've noticed on the desktop system, is that if I close a window, the focus does not return to anything on the desktop and I have to click on something to return focus. Also, none of the desktops is highlighted in the pager. This does not happen on the notebook, where closing one windows, returns focus to another window and the active desktop is highlighted in the pager. All the relevant setting in the Control Center appear to be the same. Any ideas? tnx jk
James Knott wrote:
I have two systems running SuSE 9.2. One is a notebook and the other a desktop system. One thing I've noticed on the desktop system, is that if I close a window, the focus does not return to anything on the desktop and I have to click on something to return focus. Also, none of the desktops is highlighted in the pager. This does not happen on the notebook, where closing one windows, returns focus to another window and the active desktop is highlighted in the pager. All the relevant setting in the Control Center appear to be the same.
Any ideas?
tnx jk
Sounds like you should open the Control Centre on your desktop, select Desktop and then go for Window Behaviour. Under the Focus tab select "Focus follows Mouse" and your annoying clicking days are over. From now on the window that your mouse pointer hovers over is activated. HTH Ingo
Ingo, On Wednesday 26 January 2005 00:58, blabla wrote:
James Knott wrote:
I have two systems running SuSE 9.2. One is a notebook and the other a desktop system. One thing I've noticed on the desktop system, is that if I close a window, the focus does not return to anything on the desktop and I have to click on something to return focus. Also, none of the desktops is highlighted in the pager. This does not happen on the notebook, where closing one windows, returns focus to another window and the active desktop is highlighted in the pager. All the relevant settings in the Control Center appear to be the same.
Any ideas?
tnx jk
Sounds like you should open the Control Centre on your desktop, select Desktop and then go for Window Behaviour. Under the Focus tab select "Focus follows Mouse" and your annoying clicking days are over. From now on the window that your mouse pointer hovers over is activated.
And if you inadvertently bump the mouse, your keystrokes will start going to a different window. Oh, boy! That's an improvement.
HTH
Ingo
Randall Schulz
blabla wrote:
James Knott wrote:
I have two systems running SuSE 9.2. One is a notebook and the other a desktop system. One thing I've noticed on the desktop system, is that if I close a window, the focus does not return to anything on the desktop and I have to click on something to return focus. Also, none of the desktops is highlighted in the pager. This does not happen on the notebook, where closing one windows, returns focus to another window and the active desktop is highlighted in the pager. All the relevant setting in the Control Center appear to be the same.
Any ideas?
tnx jk
Sounds like you should open the Control Centre on your desktop, select Desktop and then go for Window Behaviour. Under the Focus tab select "Focus follows Mouse" and your annoying clicking days are over. From now on the window that your mouse pointer hovers over is activated.
I'll give that a try. However the question still remains. Why does one system work correctly and the other doesn't?
blabla wrote:
James Knott wrote:
I have two systems running SuSE 9.2. One is a notebook and the other a desktop system. One thing I've noticed on the desktop system, is that if I close a window, the focus does not return to anything on the desktop and I have to click on something to return focus. Also, none of the desktops is highlighted in the pager. This does not happen on the notebook, where closing one windows, returns focus to another window and the active desktop is highlighted in the pager. All the relevant setting in the Control Center appear to be the same.
Any ideas?
tnx jk
Sounds like you should open the Control Centre on your desktop, select Desktop and then go for Window Behaviour. Under the Focus tab select "Focus follows Mouse" and your annoying clicking days are over. From now on the window that your mouse pointer hovers over is activated.
A "repair" of the installation didn't correct the problem. A reinstall did.
James Knott wrote:
I have two systems running SuSE 9.2. One is a notebook and the other a desktop system. One thing I've noticed on the desktop system, is that if I close a window, the focus does not return to anything on the desktop and I have to click on something to return focus. Also, none of the desktops is highlighted in the pager. This does not happen on the notebook, where closing one windows, returns focus to another window and the active desktop is highlighted in the pager. All the relevant setting in the Control Center appear to be the same.
Any ideas?
tnx jk
What desktop do you use? From your reference to Control Center I guess it is either KDE or Gnome. I have the above problem with fluxbox sometimes as the focus jumps to 'gkrellm' which is running at the side, but not enough to bother me. -- GPG fingerprint = 3D45 5509 D380 26A4 523E A9D8 A66A 5F38 CA43 BB0E
jalal wrote:
James Knott wrote:
I have two systems running SuSE 9.2. One is a notebook and the other a desktop system. One thing I've noticed on the desktop system, is that if I close a window, the focus does not return to anything on the desktop and I have to click on something to return focus. Also, none of the desktops is highlighted in the pager. This does not happen on the notebook, where closing one windows, returns focus to another window and the active desktop is highlighted in the pager. All the relevant setting in the Control Center appear to be the same.
Any ideas?
tnx jk
What desktop do you use?
From your reference to Control Center I guess it is either KDE or Gnome.
I have the above problem with fluxbox sometimes as the focus jumps to 'gkrellm' which is running at the side, but not enough to bother me.
I'm using KDE on both systems. As far as I can see, both have the same settings. I don't think I'm running gkrellm. Normally, the active desktop is highlighted. When this problem occurs, it's not and <ALT> TAB has no effect.
James Knott wrote:
jalal wrote:
[snipped old] What desktop do you use?
From your reference to Control Center I guess it is either KDE or Gnome.
I have the above problem with fluxbox sometimes as the focus jumps to 'gkrellm' which is running at the side, but not enough to bother me.
I'm using KDE on both systems. As far as I can see, both have the same settings. I don't think I'm running gkrellm. Normally, the active desktop is highlighted. When this problem occurs, it's not and <ALT> TAB has no effect.
ALT-TAB was my next suggestion... :( I can only guess that the focus is going somewhere and the 'somewhere' is a hidden/iconised window, but more than that is hard to say. You'll just have to shutdown as many things as possible and start them up one by one till the problem appears. -- GPG fingerprint = 3D45 5509 D380 26A4 523E A9D8 A66A 5F38 CA43 BB0E
jalal wrote:
James Knott wrote:
I'm using KDE on both systems. As far as I can see, both have the same settings. I don't think I'm running gkrellm. Normally, the active desktop is highlighted. When this problem occurs, it's not and <ALT> TAB has no effect.
ALT-TAB was my next suggestion... :(
I can only guess that the focus is going somewhere and the 'somewhere' is a hidden/iconised window, but more than that is hard to say. You'll just have to shutdown as many things as possible and start them up one by one till the problem appears.
If it was some hidden/iconised window, it should be associated with one of the 4 desktops. However, none of them is selected. Also, I've been able to demonstrate the problem by immediately after login, opening one window, then a second. Closing the second window does not return focus to the first. Also, to rule out the possibility that something under my home directory might be causing the problem, I created a new user and found the problem also exists with that user.
James Knott wrote:
jalal wrote: [snipped]
I can only guess that the focus is going somewhere and the 'somewhere' is a hidden/iconised window, but more than that is hard to say. You'll just have to shutdown as many things as possible and start them up one by one till the problem appears.
If it was some hidden/iconised window, it should be associated with one of the 4 desktops. However, none of them is selected. Also, I've been able to demonstrate the problem by immediately after login, opening one window, then a second. Closing the second window does not return focus to the first. Also, to rule out the possibility that something under my home directory might be causing the problem, I created a new user and found the problem also exists with that user.
Then it definitely sounds like a bug should be filed with the KDE folks. FYI, I'm subscribed to the main KDE lists and there has been no mention of this sort of problem, but you could check the bugs.kde.org database and see if someone has any further ideas. cheers jalal -- GPG fingerprint = 3D45 5509 D380 26A4 523E A9D8 A66A 5F38 CA43 BB0E
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