spencer@heinlein.osc.edu (Stephen N. Spencer) (10/28/89)
[please respond to one of the email addresses listed in my .signature...] I have two questions. Background: Sun 3/60, Sun OS 4.0, XV11.R3 1) I use 'awm'. Every once in awhile, (it happened twice this morning, but it hadn't happened in several weeks before that...) while I am typing the type on the screen will become all caps (not that which I've typed before, but any new type). Pressing the 'Caps Lock' key does no good. The only thing I've found which works is getting OUT of X and getting back in. (I don't have X start automatically upon login, so exiting X takes me back to the 'large type' prompt on the console.) Any ideas on why this happens and how I can fix it so it doesn't happen again? I don't hit the Caps Lock key or other keys (to my knowledge) by accident. Could I be typing too fast? 2) Window managers often have some facility to send an XKillClient() call to the process running in a window-managed window. (for example, I have a program 'foo' which, when running, will be wrapped in an 'awm' window). I have, inside 'foo' a popup shell which contains various things the user can access (buttons and the like). I put the popup up with a call to XtPopup(tpopup, XGrabNone) because I don't want the popup to have exclusive control while it's up. (Sort of like a tear-off menu on the Mac which stays around and allows interaction both with it and the rest of the program until you tell it to go away) Here's the problem: if (a) the popup is popped up, and (b) I use the 'kill' awm gadget to send an XKillClient() to 'foo', I get knocked out of X. If the popup isn't up at the time, the program exits normally. My question is this: how can my application 'foo' KNOW when 'awm' has sent an XKillClient()? Barring that, can I pop up and down that popup window in a different manner so I don't get booted out of X if the program is killed while the popup is up? Perhaps use XtNmappedWhenManaged being set to True to 'pop' the window up and False to 'pop' the window down? This just occurred to me, I haven't tried it. Thanks for any suggestions you all out there might have. Looking back, it's a bit long-winded, but I needed to describe the problems enough that perhaps someone can help me. -=- Stephen N. Spencer |"For a successful technology, reality must take ACCAD, 1224 Kinnear Rd. | precedence over public relations, for Nature Columbus OH 43212 | cannot be fooled." - Richard P. Feynman spencer@heinlein.cgrg.ohio-state.edu OR spencer@cis.ohio-state.edu