[openbox] confusing focus

Jorge Almeida jjalmeida at gmail.com
Sun Jun 10 09:16:14 EDT 2018


On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 5:13 AM, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 4:38 AM, Jim Rees <jim at rees.org> wrote:
>> I've been using xterm for decades, and openbox for years, and have never
>> seen this. I suspect it's some sort of interaction between xterm and
>> openbox. Xterm has no mailing list or bug tracking system. Your options are
>> to debug it yourself or email the xterm author.
>
> Or try another terminal emulator to see whether the problem persists,
> or try fvwm. None is very appealing...
>

OK, nothing to do with openbox. I just tried fvwm, and lo! 2 beautiful
xterms with full black cursors. I'm starting to suspect that I'm using
a bad TERM variable: xterm-256color

I changed to xterm, and we'll see. I can't remember why I had
xterm-256color, anyway.


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