Re: gvim moves mouse

On Mon, 3 May 2010, Gerhard Siegesmund wrote:

> Hello all
>
> Just a small question. Maybe this is a problem with my configuration.
> Whenever a error popup opens (e.g. when the file to open already is
> opened) after the popup vanishes the mouse cursor is moved to the
> upper left corner of the screen.
>
> This would not be such a problem, if the upper left corner wasn't
> active. When the mouse is in the upper left corner the desktop is
> shown. Effectively if a error popup appears, all my windows vanish
> after closing the popup. Not really a problem, but soft of a nuisance.
> It would be great, if I could turn off that behaviour.
>

I noticed that the problem was present on one of my Gentoo boxes (@7.2.303),
but not the other (@7.2.411), with identical configuration.

Bisecting based on what versions Gentoo has in portage, the fix came between
.376 and .402, so I'm pretty sure it was patch 386:

updated for version 7.2.386
Problem: Focus hack for KDE 3.1 causes problems for other window
managers.
Solution: Remove the hack. (forwarded by Joel Bradshaw)

which removed these lines:

- /* Terrible hack: When the text area still has focus when we remove the
- * dialog, somehow gvim loses window focus. This is with "point to type"
- * in the KDE 3.1 window manager. Warp the mouse pointer to outside the
- * window and back to avoid that. */
- if (!gui.in_focus)
- {
- int x, y;
-
- gdk_window_get_pointer(gui.drawarea->window, &x, &y, NULL);
- gui_mch_setmouse(-100, -100);
- gui_mch_setmouse(x, y);
- }
-

--
Best,
Ben

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