Xmonad and focus follows mouse issue

I've been fiddling around with xmonad, and I notice that with focus follows mouse turned on, when I create a new window the window under the mouse gets selected instead of the window that I have just created. Pretty irritating, Anyone know how to solve that?
Thanks for any help provided,
Kruppe

Yes, disabling the focus follows mouse behaviour makes it so the correct window is always chosen.
I kind of like having focus follows mouse for when I need to copy and paste in applications that don't provide good methods for doing that purely with the keyboard (firefox and most terminals when not using screen). I would therefore like to have focus follows mouse.
Sidenote: What is this updatePointer thing you use and what does it do?

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xmonad.hs
import XMonad
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import qualified Data.Map as M
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myFocusedBorderColor = "#ff0000"
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[((m .|. modm, k), windows $ f i)
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-- a new window. You can use this to, for example, always float a
-- particular program, or have a client always appear on a particular
-- workspace.
-- To find the property name associated with a program, use
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-- and click on the client you're interested in.
-- To match on the WM_NAME, you can use 'title' in the same way that
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[ className =? "MPlayer" --> doFloat
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-- , className =? "Nm-connection-editor" --> doFloat
-- , className =? "Wicd-client.py" --> doFloat
, resource =? "desktop_window" --> doIgnore
, resource =? "kdesktop" --> doIgnore
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-- with mod-q. Used by, e.g., XMonad.Layout.PerWorkspace to initialize
-- per-workspace layout choices.
-- By default, do nothing.
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, focusFollowsMouse = myFocusFollowsMouse
, borderWidth = myBorderWidth
, modMask = myModMask
, workspaces = myWorkspaces
, normalBorderColor = myNormalBorderColor
, focusedBorderColor = myFocusedBorderColor
, keys = myKeys
, mouseBindings = myMouseBindings
, layoutHook = myLayout
, manageHook = myManageHook
, handleEventHook = myEventHook
, logHook = myLogHook xmproc
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If I left click on my desktop, I get the right-click menu. The upper left button produces the Windows Start menu just fine but it is rare that I can get the right-click Windows Start menu. When I can, it is only with the upper right button.
What I'm guessing from all this is, everything that is mouse-related must run through the same hardware regardless of the input used (upper buttons, lower buttons or external USB device) and different software handles mouse clicks differently explaining the differences (good, intermittent or never) in response.
Here's another example. To run the Windows calc program from the Start menu Run feature, normally I would left click run and get the dialog with a drop down menu for recent programs accessed thru Run. Let's say I'm using calc. Simetimes this works normally. Other times when I click Run, I get a single option "drop-down" menu with that option being "run" which if clicked THEN takes me to the typical drop down menu of recent programs. Other times, I get a context menu which includes the Run option.
With that in mind, I'm wondering if replacing the touchpad assembly is likely to fix my problems or if anyone has any other suggestions other than to not spill beer on your laptop.
Thanks

hey beeherd,
replacing the touchpad assembly should resolve the issue. however, i am unable to guarantee that it will.
you could try that, or use an external mouse?
do a reinstallation of mouse drivers and use this manual : http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/43y6629_04.pdf .
open the unit and dry it in a dust free room.
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[svn] 3079: Pop up and focus fixes.

Revision: 3079
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-09-03 10:53:07 -0700 (Wed, 03 Sep 2008)
Log Message:
Pop up and focus fixes.
QE: YES
Doc:
Checkintests: YES
Reviewer: Alex
Bugs: SDK-16669, SDK-15688
mx/events/SWFBridgeEvent.as
Add marshal() method. Update ASDoc.
mx/managers/FocusManager.as
Fix bug SDK-15688. Type coercion error fixed by moving to a common super class of IFocusManagerComponent and SWFLoader.
mx/managers/PopUpManagerImpl.as
Renaming.
airframework/src/mx/managers/WindowedSystemManager.as
mx/managers/SystemManager.as
Fix problems introduced from API scrub and fix an old problem activating A.2.2.
mx/managers/SystemManagerProxy.as
Override addEventListener() and removeEventListener() to also add listeners on the proxied SystemManager. This
allows the Proxy to get keyboard focus events that happen in the proxied SystemManager. Dispatch activate/deactivate messages to the sandbox root.
Ticket Links:
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-16669
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-15688
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-15688
Modified Paths:
flex/sdk/branches/3.0.x/frameworks/projects/airframework/src/mx/managers/WindowedSystemMa nager.as
flex/sdk/branches/3.0.x/frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/events/SWFBridgeEvent.as
flex/sdk/branches/3.0.x/frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/managers/FocusManager.as
flex/sdk/branches/3.0.x/frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/managers/PopUpManagerImpl.as
flex/sdk/branches/3.0.x/frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/managers/SystemManager.as
flex/sdk/branches/3.0.x/frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/managers/SystemManagerProxy. as

I would suggest not to use JWindow but JPopupMenu! In
the JPopupMenu you can add any swing-components!
You can show the Popup in focusGained (ok, that is
not so user-friendly, in my opinion a shortcut would
do better!).
The Popup will hide automatically if you click with
the mouse somewhere else or hit escape.Thank you for the reply.
I'm still having problems. I'd prefer not to use a jpopupmenu, because I want to use that for something else. This was just going to be a simple list that would appear near the text field so user could have a list of options to choose from.
Focus gained on the textfield brings up the list. Selecting something on the list clears it (hides). This idea works well on the mac. But on the pc the jwindow keeps hiding behind the main frame ?
I have the following code
The windows is created as follows
listWindow = new JWindow(SwingUtilities.getWindowAncestor(this));
listWindow.getContentPane().add(pane);
listWindow.setVisible(false);
pane contains the jlist of values
Then the textfield is as follows
textField.addFocusListener(new java.awt.event.FocusAdapter() {
public void focusGained(java.awt.event.FocusEvent evt) {
if (showListWindow) {
if (!listWindow.isVisible()) {
Point los = getLocationOnScreen();
listWindow.setVisible(true);
listWindow.setLocation(los.x +580, los.y +75);
listWindow.pack();
listWindow.toFront();
textField().requestFocus();
I use a boolean showListWindow to decide when to show. Because I noticed that displaying the jlist and requesting focus to the textfield caused the focusGain to fire again.
Any ideas why the pc keeps the list hidden ? If I move the main frame I can see !

Wireless keyboard and Wireless Mighty Mouse failure

Hello,
I have just bought an iMac 20" with a wireless keyboard and wireless mighty mouse.
Both the keyboard and mouse will not work properly.
I followed the installation/setup instructions and paired first the keyboard and then mouse. Then the problems started.
1. Mighty Mouse tracking is dreadful and very slow (even after adjusting mouse properties)
2. Keyboard started to drop connection and then when awoke started repeating keys (as if key stuck)
3. Keyboard then disconnected and will not be recognised when searching for Bluetooth devices nor can I pair it again.
4. When both were working the Airport extreme wireless network would be lost (but I think that this is a red-herring and irrelevant)
Interesting once keyboard stopped working the wireless mouse tracking improved.
The only software I have installed since taking the iMac out of the box are (in order)
- Running/installing all Apple updates (including firmware 1.1)
- Installing Firefox 2.0
- Installing Adobe Reader 8.0
- Installing Stuffit Reader 11.0
- Installing Canon Bubble Jet Printer driver
- Installing latest version of Skype
If I use a USB mouse or keyboard they work ok.
This is the second replace imac within 2 weeks. The first had the same problem.
Can anybody help please as I'm new to Mac's after switching from a PC and I do not want to have to chuck either the keyboard or mouse or have the pain of Apple supplying me with a 3rd replacement iMac
Jonathan
iMac 20 Inch Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Congrats on the new Mac.
Did you Repair Disk Permissions after the software updates and installs?
Whether this solves this issue for you, it is something that you should always do. Go to Apps/Ut5ilities/Disk Utility and select your OS X HDD. Press Repair Permissions. Run Repair Permissions until no more repairs are reported.

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