<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Brandon Allbery <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">Most docks don't expect keyboard input directly and either open a new</div>
window or explicitly request input focus (e.g. gnome mini-commander<br>
applet), so users get confused when input focus goes to a dock<br>
especially in click-to-focus mode. I think one of the early<br>
minimalist docks did the wrong thing with input focus, too. In any<br>
case, it's somewhat unusual for a dock to want the input focus, and<br>
strange things can happen if you grant it. (Even in newer ones; I had<br>
some odd behavior from KDE4's Plasma while working on my<br>
<a href="http://freedesktop.org" target="_blank">freedesktop.org</a> extensions due to unexpected input focus.)</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Brandon,</div><div><br></div><div>I regularly have attempted to create a single emacs mini-buffer docked at the bottom of my screen for all of my frames. (My goal is to approximate the experience of the Apollo Computer DM's command window.) I have never been entirely successful. Are you suggesting that mine is a vain quest? Or can you suggest how I might actually get it to work under Xmonad?</div>
<div><br></div><div>/john</div><div><br></div><div>/john </div><div> </div></div>