Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!bloom-beacon!EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU!converse From: converse@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Donna Converse) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: dxwm focus handling Message-ID: <8910021544.AA22526@expo.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 2 Oct 89 15:44:34 GMT References: <259@servio.UUCP> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 10 > 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. Are you setting XtNinput to True on the top level shell of your application? This should be done on any application that expects user input.