On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 02:08:35PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have 3 frames open:
>
> +-------+-------+
> | 2 | 3 |
> | | |
> | +-------+
> | | 4 |
> | | |
> +-------+-------+
>
> Frame 2 is active. Same thing happens though if frame 3 is active.
>
> Ctrl-T T - changes the active frame (2 or 3).
>
> ...anything else changes frame 4 (eg. Ctrl T N, Ctrl T <number>), and
> then highlights frame 2 is active.
>
> Have I somewhere accidently entered some weird mode that forces all
> commands to go to frame 4?
>
> I tried deleting frame 4 and recreating it, but the same thing occurs.
>
> Possible swapping frame 2 and frame 4 with Ctrl-T Ctrl-Left Arrow is
> what triggered this condition.
>
> It only seems to happen for frame number 4 though. I can't reproduce
> it for frame 5, even in the same spot.
>
> Ratpoison, Debian version, 1.4.2-1
I don't really follow the above, Brian. What applications are you running
in each frame? Just an xterm?
Why is it frames 2.3,4? What happenned to 1? When I set up the above
configuration in a new workspace, with xterms, the numbers are 1,2,3
instead of 2,3,4. Ctrl-t-Tab cycles through them in that order and running
simple shell commands in any active window changes nothing in any other.
Ctrl-t-t or Ctrl-t-n/p don't do anything but give a "no other window"
error. You can go to each window by number or name, though.
Ctrl-t-<up/down/left/right> just shifts the focus to the indicated frame.
Right now, all I can suggest is that you try dedicating each frame: Shift
the focus to each one and bring up the RP prompt and type "dedicate".
But first, do all this:
Try Shifting to tty1 (assuming that's where X booted from) and see if there
are any RP messages there. Or any from the apps you are running in
those frames.
Then kill X (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace) and enter
Kill -HUP 1
as root, to run init again, then restart X and RP.
Tom