[Lazarus] Form ordering problem on tiling window manager

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Sven Barth schrieb:

> The point is: I can focus other windows without problems (I'm using the 
> "focus follows mouse cursor" feature), but I can't interact with those 
> other non-modal windows and they also aren't brought to the front.

Just a note:
The "focus follows mouse" is/was a dangerous feature of the XWindows 
manager. In the 80s some people found it funny to move the mouse of 
somebody else, who was entering text. As soon as the mouse left the 
current window, further keystrokes ended up in nirvana, or in another 
window.

The (later?) introduction of modal forms is implemented in both an 
window manager (system modal) *and* application (application modal), 
with possibly strange effects when used together with "focus follows 
mouse". When the WM doesn't honor or even doesn't know about application 
modal windows, and redirects input to other than the application 
top-level modal window, the results can become inpredictable.

DoDi