[texworks] Strange and annoying window focusing problem

David Woodfall dave at dawoodfall.net
Fri Dec 28 21:15:34 CET 2012


On (19:39 28/12/12), David Woodfall <dave at dawoodfall.net> put forth the proposition:
>On (17:49 28/12/12), Stefan Löffler <st.loeffler at gmail.com> put forth the proposition:
>>Hi,
>>
>>On 2012-12-25 04:24, David Woodfall wrote:
>>>Sometimes while I'm typing focus will shift from the input section to
>>>the menu, as I'd pressed Alt or something. I'm using fluxbox as window
>>>manager but can't seem to find any setting that will stop this
>>>behaviour. I don't have problems with other apps. Anyone know about
>>>this and perhaps a remedy?
>>
>>sorry to hear about your problem. AFAIK, there is nothing special in the
>>Tw-specific code to cause such a behavior. Maybe it's a problem in the
>>Qt library (which we use to create the interface, including the menu)?
>
>These are my Qt packages. Could be that mixing the qt3 and qt4 is a
>problem
>
>/var/log/packages/qt-4.8.2-x86_64-4
>/var/log/packages/qt-compat32-4.8.2-x86_64-4compat32
>/var/log/packages/qt3-3.3.8b-i486-opt1

I've made a patch which basically cuts out anything I could find
concerning focus. It'll be a while until I need to actually write
anything again so I can't really test at the moment. I'll let you know
if there's any improvement.

Dave


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