[Xmonad] mod-{w,e,r} don't work when OpenOffice.org has focus

Donald Bruce Stewart dons at cse.unsw.edu.au
Mon Jul 9 22:03:57 EDT 2007


kai.grossjohann:
> dons at cse.unsw.edu.au (Donald Bruce Stewart) writes:
> 
> > With the darcs version?
> 
> Yes, I just pulled again, and my working copy didn't change.
> 
> | ketchup% darcs changes --context --last=3
> |
> | Context:
> |
> | [Operations.screenWorkspace: return Nothing when the screen does not exist
> | Spencer Janssen <sjanssen at cse.unl.edu>**20070707223842] 
> |
> | [Operations.rescreen: screen indexes start at zero
> | Spencer Janssen <sjanssen at cse.unl.edu>**20070707223334] 
> |
> | [Note and workaround bugs in Operations.float
> | Spencer Janssen <sjanssen at cse.unl.edu>**20070705195213] 
> 
> Not sure if that is a useful command to show you what I have.  I don't
> know anything about distributed VC systems.
> 
> > Two possibilities come to mind:
> >
> >     * its the focus stealing issue fixed in the darcs branch a couple
> >     of weeks ago
> 
> Not likely, given that (I think) my copy is up to date w.r.t. the public
> tree.
> 
> >     * openoffice is stealing those key bindings -- use a different mod
> >     key
> 
> This is the first time I hear that an app can steal key bindings from
> the WM.  Normally, the WM should intercept the key bindings first.
> 

Could you put in a bug report on the tracker, with details on how to
reproduce? That'll mean we're sure to look at it then.

-- Don


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