| Title: | DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90 |
| Notice: | See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit |
| Moderator: | STAR::VATNE |
| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Dec 31 1990 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3726 |
| Total number of notes: | 19516 |
I'm a relatively new DECwindows user so excuse this question if
it is naive.
If from the session manager window I create a DECterm
DECwindows plasters a DECterm all over my screen occluding any
other windows. All well and good, but then I have to move the
mouse pointer to the newly created window and hit MB1 to
get input focus before I can start typing to my new DECterm. Why do I
have to go through this unneccessary step. It seems obvious to me that
I created a DECterm because I wanted to use it! Hence why leave
input focus on the Session Manager Window (which has probably been
more or less totally occluded by the new DECterm anyway)?
Dave
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1392.1 | LESLIE::LESLIE | Fat was then - thinner is now | Thu Sep 07 1989 07:59 | 11 | |
You need to run either AUTOFOCUS or the HP Motif Window Manager. The
automatic assignment of input to a new windows was dropped from DW
early on becase of the long time that it takes some applications to get
going even tho' they have a window up.
Both are mentioned plentifully herein.
- ���
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| 1392.2 | PSW::WINALSKI | Careful with that VAX, Eugene | Thu Sep 07 1989 18:37 | 9 | |
RE: .0 Suppose you assigned focus to some other window and started doing things while waiting for the DECterm to come up. It would be pretty bad if the DECterm then grabbed focus while you're in the middle of typing. VWS used to do this and it drove me batty. --PSW | |||||