Regarding X client

Carsten Haitzler raster at rasterman.com
Wed Jun 28 16:14:26 UTC 2023


On Tue, 27 Jun 2023 15:51:16 +0300 Riza Dindir <riza.dindir at gmail.com> said:

> Hello All,
> 
> I want to run two applications on X client, and have an xinitrc file
> that starts a GTK application and another that starts xterm. Like so
> 
> my-gui-app &
> xterm
> 
> I do not want to use a window manager for this.
> 
> When I start the client with startx, it displays both of the
> applications but the xterm does not have focus.
> 
> If I click on the xterm window, the focus is not given to the xterm window.
> 
> Is this default behavior? How can I focus on the xterm window? Using a
> mouse? Or some other way?

this is what window managers do. i suggest you run a window manager. focus
policy is handled by things like window managers. you won't have to run
something heavy-weight. there are plenty of very small wm's that are simpler and
smaller than even xterm.

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