From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: [jonathan.the-seng1@etud.univ-ubs.fr: bug emacs] Date: 02 Apr 2002 13:09:07 +0200 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200203241553.g2OFrPA02755@aztec.santafe.edu> <200203251201.g2PC1XV03088@aztec.santafe.edu> <15519.6972.560000.363430@mail.chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1017745928 8671 127.0.0.1 (2 Apr 2002 11:12:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 11:12:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16sMCt-0002Fk-00 for ; Tue, 02 Apr 2002 13:12:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16sMCp-0002F7-00; Tue, 02 Apr 2002 06:12:03 -0500 Original-Received: from steve.ims.uni-stuttgart.de ([141.58.127.232]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16sMA1-0007iR-00 for ; Tue, 02 Apr 2002 06:09:09 -0500 Original-Received: (from steve@localhost) by steve.ims.uni-stuttgart.de (8.10.2/8.10.2/SuSE Linux 8.10.0-0.3) id g32B98901662; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 13:09:08 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: steve.ims.uni-stuttgart.de: steve set sender to steve@ims.uni-stuttgart.de using -f Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 32 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:362 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:362 Ralf Fassel writes: > * "Robert Marshall" > | I'm not sure which other window managers allow a change of workspace > | by use of (only) the keyboard - > > fvwm does. I'm not fluent in french, so I'm not sure I did understand > what the original problem was, but when using emacs' menu-bar, I can > pop-up a menu, then change the workspace via keyboard-shortcuts, and > the menu stays posted on the new workspace while the emacs frame is > gone. The menu takes effect if I select some entry. > > It seems to me that is a question of global grab vs. application > grab. > > Other programs seem to issue a global grab while posting the menu, so > the keyboard shortcuts don't reach the window manager, and no Desktop > switching takes place until the menu is unposted. As another datapoint, I have observed a different but perhaps related problem with Emacs (both 21.2 and 20.7) under KDE (2.2.2): when I click on a menu bar label in Emacs and then press `Ctrl-TAB' (the KDE keyboard shortcut to change the virtual desktop/workspace) while the Emacs menu is displayed, the keyboard locks up. I haven't been able to replicate this behavior with other apps in KDE (they simply block switching of the desktop, as described above). On the other hand, it seems similar to a known KDE bug and has a similar workaround, i.e., clicking on the border of an active window (see e.g. bugs.kde.org/db/29/29926.html). --Steve Berman