[KLUG Members] Deploying Linux on the corporate desktop.

[Bruce Smith]

> > The problem is I can't make KDE work with our ERP software 
> > (running on HPUX, displayed on the Linux desktop). 
> >  
> > The ERP X-window does not set the "WM_HINT" correctly, and 
> > I need a windows manager than has an option to handle this. 
> > Otherwise, the ERP window can NEVER get focus. 
> >  
> > In Gnome (Sawfish actually), there is a setting that says: 
> > "Give focus to windows even when they haven't ask for it". 
> >  
> > In the xfwm (XFCE) config file, there is this: 
> >  
> > # Xfwm now honors the WM_HINT "Input" and acts accordingly. 
> > # If you don't want this feature, use the following parameter 
> > # to disable it (Some applications wrongly set input hint to 
> > # false and therefore will never get focus unless 
> > # "HonorWMFocusHint" is set to "No") : 
> > HonorWMFocusHint     No 
> >  
> > And the last time I looked at KDE, it didn't have a similar 
> > option. Maybe that's changed with newer KDE's?  I don't know, but 
> > if you know of the option in KDE, please let me know _where_ to 
> > find it. 
> >  
> I found this in /usr/include/kde/kwin/client.h 
>     uint input :1; // does the window want input in its wm_hints 
>     uint store_settings : 1; 
>     uint skip_pager : 1; 
>     void getWMHints(); 

Sorry, but I'm not going to recompile KDE for this project. 

No time, no desire, do not want the nightmare of keeping it 
up to date when new releases come out . . . . 

> I'm not sure if this is the function your looking for. The only 
> config setting for focus I've found is a tab under look and feel | 
> Window behavior. The options are all mouse related. Click for focus, 
> Focus follows mouse, Focus under mouse, Focus strictly under mouse. 

I found something on kde.org a long time ago saying that this was NOT an
option in KDE.  If you find it's changed since then, please let me know.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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