Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!psueea!parsely!bucket!servio!bruce From: bruce@servio.UUCP (Bruce Schuchardt) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: dxwm focus handling Message-ID: <259@servio.UUCP> Date: 26 Sep 89 18:37:36 GMT Reply-To: bruce@servio.UUCP (Bruce Schuchardt) Distribution: usa Organization: Servio Logic Development Corp.; Beaverton, OR Lines: 18 I am a new X-windows programmer and am trying to build/use applications on a DECstation 3100 under DEC's window manager, dxwm. I'm having a hard time getting dxwm to give keyboard focus to applications that weren't built with DEC's Dwt libraries. Digital-supplied applications like xedit and xterm, that are built with the Athena widget set, work fine, but my own and other apps just don't get the keyboard focus. If I kill off dxwm and use uwm instead, everything works OK. Under dxwm, I can use the mouse with my applications, but whenever I type anything, the keyboard events go to one of Digital's apps. The banner that dxwm puts on shell windows never changes state - it always looks inactive. With Xw-based applications, the banner of the DEC window having focus flashes sometimes when I move the cursor around in my apps. What am I missing? Is there some .Xdefault I can set to tell dxwm to give these apps the focus? If there is some FM that I should read, _please_ point me to it.