X11 Window Focus Problem Driving Me Crazy

Hello,
For no reason that I can figure, I'm having difficulty in OS X with the window focus. In the gimp, or inkscape or any other X11 program, when I click on a button, after about a second, the focus of the window is temporally lost. I've uploaded a video to show the problem more exactly:
http://www.screencast.com/users/grey1618/folders/Jing/media/d826455a-9657-4409-b 085-a8a1b3c5ca19
If you watch the close, minimize and plus button on the top of each window after I click each tool you'll see what I mean.
Any help would be really, really appreciated.
Thank you,
-Grey

Best you post to the Unix forum under OS X Technologies where the Unix, Terminal, and X11 mavens congregate.

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