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Re: [PATCH] gitk: force focus to main window

From
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date
Dec 18, 2008, 04:09 UTC
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<18761.52488.206887.985268@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
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Johannes Schindelin writes:
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> > At least put a if {[tk windowingsystem] eq "win32"} in there. (msysGit 
> > is a windows thing, isn't it?)
> 
> Yeah, because on other platforms, when you start gitk, you don't want it 
> to take focus.  Yeah, right.

No - on other platforms I have a window manager that gives focus to new applications automatically. Or, if I don't want new applications to grab the focus, I tell the window manager that that's what the policy should be. Either way the application shouldn't forcibly and unilaterally grab the focus.

I'm prepared (predisposed, even :-) to believe that windows sucks, so I'll take the patch if it only affects windows.

Paul.
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Message 5 of 6 in “gitk: force focus to main window”
  1. gitk: force focus to main windowJohannes Sixt, Dec 17, 2008
  2. Paul MackerrasDec 17, 2008
  3. Johannes SchindelinDec 18, 2008
  4. Jeff KingDec 18, 2008
  5. Paul MackerrasDec 18, 2008
  6. gitk: force the focus to the main window on WindowsJohannes Sixt, Dec 18, 2008

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