Re: [dwm] Possible focus stealing prevention problem.

Anselm R. Garbe dixit (2007-12-05, 09:18):

> > grab failed: another application has grab
> > grab failed: another application has grab
> > while executing
> > "grab -global $w"
> > (procedure "tk::TraverseToMenu" line 21)
> > invoked from within
> > "tk::TraverseToMenu . t"
> > (command bound to event)
> >
> > Do you think this could in any way be related to dwm's focus stealing
> > prevention? This only happens ocasionally, so there's possibly some race
> > condition involved.
>
> Sounds possible.
>
> > I've also been recently upgrading my Tcl/Tk installation to 8.5_beta3
> > (from 8.5_beta2), so it could possibly be related to that as well, seems
> > unlikely, but I didn't test very thouroughly, since this bug isn't
> > happening all that often.
>
> Sounds possible as well, please recheck with _beta2 to exclude
> this reason.

Yeah, just tried with _beta2 and managed to trigger the problem again.
This happens both in Tkabber and HV3 (i don't use much other tcl/tk
apps) when trying to enter and navigate the application menu with a
shortcut key (lalt-<somekey>).

Regards,

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