On Fri 2019.04.12 at 11:32 -0400, Charles wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 10:50:54AM -0400, Okan Demirmen wrote:
> > On Fri 2019.04.12 at 10:15 -0400, Charles wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 09:26:36AM +0200, Benjamin Baier wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 22:04:07 -0400
> > > > Charles <char...@cdaniels.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hello list,
> > > > Hello
> > > >
> > > > > There seems to be an issue with the Scribus port when combined with 
> > > > > CWM.
> > > > > Namely, the "properties" window/dialog can only be opened once. After
> > > > > being closed, it cannot be opened again. Restarting the application 
> > > > > does
> > > > > not fix the problem.
> > > > >
> > > > > This issue is specific to CWM, I am not able to reproduce under FVWM.
> > > > >
> > > > > I have reproduced this issue under OpenBSD current on AMD64, and on
> > > > > OpenBSD 6.4 on macppc (iBook G4). In both cases, using Scribus 1.4.6
> > > > > installed via pkg_add.
> > > > >
> > > > > I found a previous issue that affected the way CWM and Qt interact, 
> > > > > which was
> > > > > posted[1] under the subject line "calmwm mouse stuck inside of 
> > > > > window" over on
> > > > > misc@. Okan and I synced up off list and determined it was due to 
> > > > > CWM's
> > > > > implementation of EWMH interacting improperly with Qt.
> > > > Seen this one before, too.
> >
> > Yes, in fact this has to do with cwm's insistence of warp'ing the mouse;
> > a lot of cwm's behaviours get in the way of ewmh - or maybe one could
> > say the other way around. Changing cwm various behaviours are
> > challenging because wm's are super personal and no one ends up happy
> > (including me); as this is my experience at least. /end mini-rant. One
> > might also say Qt behaves differently as well...anyway.
> 
> <rant>
> 
> It is unfortunate that this type of thinking (referring to the general
> philosophy of OpenBSD / CWM / suckless.org / et. al.) seem to swim so
> hard against the current. I think it is not so unreasonable to expect my
> WM to act on my behalf and not yank windows around without my say so,
> and so on... unfortunately it would seem that I/we are in a minority on
> that point.
> 
> </rant>
> 
> Do you think there is a strong possibility this is EWMH related? If the
> EWMH event handler is disabled can the issue be reproduced still? I plan
> to spend some time testing this more rigorously over the weeknd; I can
> add CWM w/ EWMH patched out to my matrix of test configurations,
> assuming I can figure out how to switch it off easily. As I recall it
> had a pretty well defined entry point, but I haven't read the code in a
> while.

Disable all the pointer warp'ing, or EWMH (active window hint) - either
will "fix" your issue in the short term.

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