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Interaction between multiwindow and xmouse (without autoraise)
- From: David Corking <lists at dcorking dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 08:18:55 -0400
- Subject: Interaction between multiwindow and xmouse (without autoraise)
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
I like using the xmouse feature in W2K with autoraise disabled (that
is to say that focus follow mouse, with a click to raise.)
I noticed that when I mouse over an X window, then click to raise, the
newly raised window does not redraw portions that were overlapped by
another X window. (I need to change focus to the overlapping window
-A- and back to the raised window -B- to trigger the redraw. I can do
this by mousing from B to A and back to B, or by typing Alt-Tab twice.)
X is started with the distributed startxwin.bat, that is
Xwin -multiwindow
Is this a known problem (I did not see it in the docs) or have I made
a mistake? I concede that xmouse is a relatively obscure feature in
Win32, and I hope I explained the behavior satisfactorily.
Workaround - use a native X window manager in rootless mode.
(Preferably a wm with a click-to-raise policy similar to Win32. Now I
have 2 places to customize the desktop and I will miss Alt-Tab :-) )
David