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On 2021/04/09 07:41, Jon Turney wrote:
> 
> I think so, yes.
===
	That's fine, I guess I hadn't noticed it before --
had about 3-X and maybe 2 native and couldn't figure out why I
occasionally had typing going to the wrong window when I realized I
had been relying on the blinking for the active window...oi!  

> 
> See [1] et seq. for a discussion of what I think is the same problem, 
> where the Cygwin X server doesn't notify X windows of a focus loss when 
> the focus moves to a non-X window.
> 
> Unfortunately, my attempts at fixing this just introduced more problems 
> (see [2],[3] et seq.), and so were reverted.
===

	That's unfortunate.  Well, I wasn't sure if it was new
or old. At least its not some new problem.  Sigh.

	Thanks for the backstory.

> 
> [1] https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/cygwin/2017-04/msg00168.html
> [2] https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/cygwin/2017-04/msg00278.html
> [3] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2017-May/232564.html
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