[comp.windows.x] No keyboard events under olwm for overrideShell popups

michael@parns.nsc.com (Michael C. Wagnitz) (03/16/90)

Is there a solution to the problem of not receiving keyboard events in an
overrideShell popup under olwm (X11R4, Fixes 1-6, Sun4/110, SunOS 4.0.3)?

I have written an application using the Athena widgets and the toolkit
intrinsics which does set the input resource to true using the XtSetArgs
mechanism when creating the popup, and which works correctly with each of the
other five choices of window manager available under R4, but which refuses
to accept keyboard events under olwm.  I note that there has been no response
to Jim Frost's similar question posted 2-March to comp.windows.x.  Perhaps
there IS no solution, but could someone in the know please respond?
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mikey@wsl.dec.com (Mike Yang) (03/16/90)

In article <194@harley.nsc.com>, michael@parns.nsc.com (Michael C.
Wagnitz) writes:
|> Is there a solution to the problem of not receiving keyboard events in an
|> overrideShell popup under olwm (X11R4, Fixes 1-6, Sun4/110, SunOS 4.0.3)?

You will have similar problems getting input focus transferred to an
overrideRedirect window with dxwm, the window manager shipped with
DECwindows.

You should reevaluate whether you do indeed want an overrideShell
popup (it's rude), and if so, try grabs or use XSetInputFocus on the
window.

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