simpson@saturn.ind.trw.com (Scott Simpson) (03/01/90)
I recently switch from uwm to twm and an old problem I noticed in twm still exists. When my machine gets somewhat loaded and I move the cursor to a new window and start typing, twm doesn't always catch up and the input goes to the other window. This never happened with uwm and is the main reason I used to use it. Is there any way to tell twm to check the times of pointer and keyboard events so it knows which window keyboard input is supposed to go to, regardless of whether it has caught up yet? Scott Simpson TRW Information Networks Division simpson@trwind.trw.com
envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith) (03/01/90)
In article <2928@trwind.UUCP>, simpson@saturn.ind.trw.com (Scott Simpson) writes: > I recently switch from uwm to twm and an old problem I noticed in twm > still exists. When my machine gets somewhat loaded and I move the cursor > to a new window and start typing, twm doesn't always catch up and the input > goes to the other window. This never happened with uwm and is the main > reason I used to use it. Is there any way to tell twm to check the times > of pointer and keyboard events so it knows which window keyboard input > is supposed to go to, regardless of whether it has caught up yet? > Scott Simpson TRW Information Networks Division simpson@trwind.trw.com You have to set "NoTitleFocus" in your .twmrc file. There is apparently a race condition if you allow keyboard focus in the title bar. This will prevent the problem you are having. _____________________________________ Brian V. Smith (bvsmith@lbl.gov) Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory I don't speak for LBL, these non-opinions are all mine.
jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton) (03/01/90)
When my machine gets somewhat loaded and I move the cursor
to a new window and start typing, twm doesn't always catch up and the input
goes to the other window.
Put "NoTitleFocus" in your .twmrc (see sample-twmrc/jim.twmrc) to disable
autotracking. This means that typing in the title bar won't necessarily
work "right", but you won't see the annoying lag.