Re: BUG? Mozilla (firefox, thunderbird) and focussing

[Ivo van der Wijk <ivo amaze nl>]

Ivo van der Wijk wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I don't know if this is a known issue - bugzilla is down and google 
> doesn't give any interesting hits.
>
> I'm experiencing highly annoying focussing behaviour with sawfish, 
> gnome2 and most mozilla based products (browser, firefox, thunderbird). 
> Sometimes, focus remains with the wrong (mozilla-) window/application, 
> and I can't manage to get the keybord focus on the selected window, 
> except by moving to a different desktop and back again. Mouse-focus 
> works fine - I can select menu's, scroll, etc. However, firefox seems to 
> use the keyboard focus to determine which window to do specific actions 
> on, so for I can for example click the 'reload' button in one firefox 
> window, and another window will reload.
>
> All of this happens only with mozilla based applications (it might be a 
> mozilla bug), and with sawfish. Other applications/window managers don't 
> seem to suffer from this problem.

Ok, I seem to be the only one suffering from this bug (except for my colleague 
with the same setup) - noone can confirm this or suggest a solution, and I 
wouldn't know where to start looking for answers either.

Does anyone have any good sawfish-like alternatives for debian/unstable / 
gnome2? I esp. like sawfishes bindings (I have loads of them, esp combined with 
virtual desktops) and its virtual desktop support (though most WM's have 
something similar)

Cheers

	Ivo



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