[Xmonad] bugginess on x86-64 in focus-follows-mouse

[David Roundy]

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:41:25PM -0500, Spencer Janssen wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2007 19:02:50 -0700
> David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I just this morning installed xmonad on my computer at work, and I've
> > run into some bugginess in focus-follows-mouse on this computer: it
> > doesn't work! The only difference that seems notable is that this is
> > a 64-bit machine, while my home computer is 32-bit.  In any case, the
> > bugginess is just tha focus doesn't follow mouse.
> 
> X11 1.2 is almost totally broken on 64-bit.  I suggest you upgrade to
> X11 1.2.1 (just released with GHC 6.6.1) or darcs X11.  The problem
> should disappear with a new version of X11.

Argh.  It's rather annoying that a broken version of X11 was included in
the just-released debian stable...  :( I'll see about compiling a newer
X11.

Thanks for the info!
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.darcs.net