Since a system reinstallation recently, I have an irritating
problem with my desktop. Less than a second after opening or
selecting a desktop window, the previously active window will pop
to the top. Frequently this means that the wrong window will
intercept my next mouse click, sometimes with very awkward results.
Since I installed a lot of things at the same time (eCS 1.1,
fixpack 4, Odin, Mozilla 1.7, etc.), it's hard to guess which piece
of software is doing this.
Example: I've just downloaded the new version of TOP from Hobbes,
and put TOP.EXE in the folder E:\Apps. With that folder open on
the desktop, I double-click on TOP.EXE. TOP starts to execute, as
expected, but almost immediately the Apps window jumps on top of it.
A few minutes before that, I had started a download from Hobbes
and then minimized the Mozilla window. Just as I started to do
something else, Mozilla un-minimized itself.
Another common example: I click on the System Setup icon on the
eCenter, but before I get to pick a menu item the menu
disappears.
Clearly there's some sort of WPS enhancer that's doing things
about half a second behind me. In the past XWorkplace has done
things like this, but I've been able to resolve the problem
by turning off a few options. Now I have eCenter, which I
haven't used before but which is obviously a subset of XCenter.
This time I've disabled folder auto-refresh and turned off
"react to folder hot keys", but it hasn't helped.
Does this ring a bell with anyone? I'd guess there's a race
(rats, lost the focus as I was typing that time) in the desktop
refreshing such that refreshing is occurring in the wrong order,
but I don't have a clue how to fix it.
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Peter Moylan peter at ee dot newcastle dot edu dot au
http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au (OS/2 and eCS information and software)
