111448 - twm or no wm: Cannot type into dialog fields

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 76854

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Rodrigo Nuno Bragança da Cunha]

Using Redhat 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, also 6.2 IIRC, Mozilla won't properly handle
keyboard focus if you don't enable the "DecorateTransients" option in TWM.

With no window manager the same applies, since the windows are not reparented
anyway...

I'm aware this was a reported bug in Irix, but it seems to be more general.
Perhaps it is a GTK bug, but other GTK apps work, so I'm not so sure about that.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Duplicate of "Mozilla ignores keyboard input if a window manager is not used"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 76854 ***

Comment 2

[Randell Jesup [:jesup] (needinfo me)]

What version of GTK was this system running?

Comment 3

[Rodrigo Nuno Bragança da Cunha]

The same GTK that comes with redhat 7.1 and 7.2. In 7.2 it's
libgtk-1.2.so.0.9.1, mozilla is "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;
rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901"

The problems is with the transient windows only, and only if they don't get
reparented. In twm that behaviour can be changed with DecorateTransients witch
forces reparenting. Otherwise the windows only get a simple frame around them,
allowing you to move/resize/iconify/whatever, but they won't get a title and
won't be reparented, as if running without a window manager.

If I apply the NoTitle option to some of the windows, forcing twm to not draw a
title, only the frame as before, but still reparenting the window, the focus
works perfectly well.

Other window managers allways reparent windows, so the problem won't arise.

Comment 4

[Randell Jesup [:jesup] (needinfo me)]

what does gtk-config --version return was what I meant, sorry

Comment 5

[Rodrigo Nuno Bragança da Cunha]

/home/r0>gtk-config --version
1.2.10

(sorry for the delay, but my new 40GB Maxtor just crashed a few days ago...,
then they've got me a 40GB Quantum, never worked, straight from the factory...
Now at least this western digital seems to be working, so I've been busy with
data recovery and intalations and stuff like that)