> The scenario:
>
> VW 5i.4c OE running on Sparc/Solaris (either Envy or normal image)
> X server (X.Org 7.2) running on Linux.
>
> VW starts OK, displays, responds normally to mouse clicks.
>
> The problem:
>
> None of the VW windows will take keyboard focus. All keystrokes go to
> the last non-VW window to have focus.
>
>
> Has anyone else seen this? Any hints on how to get around it?
>
>
> I haven't had to run 5i this way for at least several months, and it
> worked fine the last time I tried. The most likely change is an update
> to the X server.
The following is from a dim memory of many many years ago, please take
it with a large grain of salt:
In those days I could only get VW to work on a split X environment if
both server and client libraries were of the same foundry.
I recall having a look at the VM sources and noticing that that VM
caches several properties of the X client and then pretends these
properties apply equally to the X server. I also vaguely recall that
the VM would ask for the vendor tag of the X client and then applying
settings from a hard-coded vendor->properties map in the VM -- this
whole setup wouldn't ask what the vendor of the XServer is, it just
assumed it would be the same as the client.
Needless to say this falls apart in certain scenarios. My symptoms
were more severe though, the whole X connection would hang somewhere
during connection build-up. No VW windows visible...
I don't know whether this still applies in the case of 5.4c and my
memory is vague anyway -- but here you have it ;-)
R
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