Re: Work in Progress: draft 1.9a

[Matthias Ettrich <ettrich troll no>]

> > think ICCCM handles that just fine: applications with modal dialogs should
> > request the WM_TAKE_FOCUS protocol and take care themselves that the modal
> > dialog gets the focus.
> 
> One thing usefull in MWM hints is that a WM can prevent the parent
> window from being focused by default.

I'm not opposed to adding this to the new standard. But as I said: according to
ICCCM the application should do this itself, using the WM_TAKE_FOCUS protocol.
In other words: the app receives WM_TAKE_FOCUS for the parent and will call
XSetInputFocus for the modal dialog.

Matthias