[H-GEN] Why no keyboard with NO Window Manager ?

Christopher Biggs listjunkie at pobox.com
Fri Apr 25 19:49:20 EDT 2003


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Jason Parker-Burlingham <jasonp at uq.net.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> The application started fine and worked through
> mouse clicks, but I could type *one* character into the URL bar and
> then no further keyboard input would be accepted 

I think what's happening here is that mozilla's auto-complete facility
is popping up a transient window with some autocompletion hints.
This is the eqivalent of what MS-ers would know as "ToolTips".

Simple apps like "xterm" et al work because they stick to a single
window.   (Try turning off autocompletion in mozilla and see if that helps).

Remember, in X, "window" includes things like popups, icons and other
arcana.

> It seems to me there's some widget issue here; maybe mozilla *needs* a
> window manager (which I think is pretty ridiculous) 

Not really ridiculous when you look at the underlying definition of "window".

I would suggest 9wm or one of its derivatives (wm2, wmx, larswm,
ratpoison) as a minimal window manager for single-applications
environments.  They should be pretty easy to lock down.   Then of
course there's the old workhorse, twm.

I run larswm at ork and wmx at home.   ratpoison is worth a look, just
to tie your brain in knots...


--cjb


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