Re: vim-xaw users out there?

["Martin S. Weber" <Ephaeton%gmx.net@localhost>]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 03:14:50PM +0100, herbert langhans wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 09:11:05AM +0100, Matthias Kretschmer wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 11:50:09AM -0500, Martin S. Weber wrote:
> > > I'm wondering if people are successfully using vim-xaw from the
> > > last pkgrsc release branch on, say, netbsd-6/amd64? Somehow I
> > > can't get to have keyboard focus on mine. [..]
> > > 
> > > This is vim-xaw-7.3.653 off of pkgsrc-2012Q3 sources (no update pending)
> > > on NetBSD 6.0_STABLE amd64 from Nov 12 netbsd-6 sources.
> > 
> > here it is working like a charm.  Maybe some bug in the
> > window manager?
> > 
> > $ uname -rsm
> > NetBSD 6.0_RC2 i386
> > $ pkg_info | grep vim-xaw
> > vim-xaw-7.3.653     Vim editor (vi clone) with X11 Athena GUI
> > 
> > --
> > Regards
> >     Matthias Kretschmer
> 
> Same trouble here under fluxbox too:
> NetBSD 5.1.2 (GENERIC)
> fluxbox-1.3.2       Window Manager for X based on Blackbox
> vim-xaw-7.3.653     Vim editor (vi clone) with X11 Athena GUI
> 
> If I invoke $vim -g via rxvt or xterm I cannot click to focus on the
> vim-window. But if I close the rxvt-window, I can use vim. If I invoke
> vim -g via the menu of fluxbox (and no terminal open on the screen) then
> I can use vim normally.

None of these tricks work for me though.

> Yes, must be a bug - but not only related to NetBSD 6.0.

Telling that the -gtk2 version doesn't suffer from the same problem :D

-Martin