Problem with focus in Metacard windows on SGI system 5.2

Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble (starnet!apple!ill.fr!hewat)
25 May 1994 17:35:27 +0000

We have just upgraded to the latest system 5.2 on our Silicon Graphics
machines, and now we sometimes have a problem grabbing focus with
some Metacard windows. This happens with both the SGI 4Dwm and the
generic mwm window managers.

Clicking on the window header does not always hilight the window, so
that nothing can be typed into fields, though buttons respond to clicks.
Curiously, the window can be dragged around, even though unhilighted,
and eventually dragging it around several times restores focus i.e. it
hilights and accepts input in fields.

The problem is intermittent, on both the console and X-terminals and
is the same on an Indy-PC as on an Indigo Elan. Metacard was no doubt
compiled under system 4, but should work on system 5.

Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble, FRANCE (hewat@ill.fr) Fax (France=33).76.48.39.06