Re: [Gnuplot-info] gnuplot "steals" focus from linux terminal buffer

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

Grant Schoep wrote:

> Each time gnuplot does the "reread" it grabs focus from the linux
> terminal's cut/paste buffer. 

I think you're mixing up terms here.  "Focus" is the name of the feature 
that one of the many X11 windows has the focus, meaning that all 
keyboard input will go to that window.  The manager manages and 
visualizes which window that is.

 > Meaning, if I double click on a word in the
> terminal, then try to use the middle button to paste that word, if
> gnuplot does the re read before I hit the middle button, it clears that
> mouse buffer.

That's not "focus", that's the X11 cut/paste buffer, a.k.a. "selection". 
  Up to version very recent CVS versions, gnuplot's X11 driver
always grabbed that buffer each time a new graph is made.  In current
CVS this can be turned off using an X11 resource.

> what I had double clicked on. So I can use the middle mouse button to
> paste. I have "noraise" on, so it doesn't steal focus.

Noraise is not about focus, either --- that's about z ordering.