Bug 7675 - focus doesn't switch properly between multiple views on the same screen
Summary: focus doesn't switch properly between multiple views on the same screen
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: screen
Version: 6.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-12-08 02:33 UTC by Sittampalam, Ganesh
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-12-16 20:50:14 UTC
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Description Sittampalam, Ganesh 1999-12-08 02:33:48 UTC 
Start a screen, and have at least two windows in it. Get a different views
of the screen by running screen -x from another login (to the same account
of course). Make sure that this view is showing a different window in the
screen.

Type something in one view, then switch to the other view and press UP.
Nothing will happen, but if you go back to the first view you will see
that UP has been pressed there instead. Doing something other than
pressing UP or DOWN in the new view seems to fix this problem.

I have only confirmed that this happens (on two different machines,
though) when logging in via ssh.
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-12-08 16:26:59 UTC 
Confirmed. What I'm guessing actually happens is that
just hitting up or down doesn't cause sceen to
switch to whatever screen is 'foreground' on the
current vt/pty/whatever you want to call it.
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 1999-12-16 20:50:59 UTC 
Fixed in screen-3.9.5, in Raw Hide.
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