remote app problem: menus go away at wrong time

[Dan Kegel]

Francois Gouget wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Dan Kegel wrote:
>>First issue: you can't use the menus with the mouse!  Sure, they'll
>>pop up, but when you move the mouse down to one of the menu items,
>>the menu goes away.  It decides the user really wanted to highlight
>>the toolbar, or something.
> 
> 
> I have heard about similar symptoms before and if memory serves it's a
> window manager issue that can also happen on Linux. It may be related to
> focus follows mouse or something similar.
> 
> So one possible way to attack this issue would be to find out who in the
> stack of applications you are using is playing the role of a 'window
> manager' wrt. Unix applications. Then try to fiddle with the focus
> settings.

OK.  FWIW, the window manager in use was TWM, the one that
comes standard with X.  Seems like we ought to support that one.
It's the fallback window manager when nothing else is installed,
and it's the only window manager available in Cygwin (unless I
missed the other ones :-)
- Dan

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